Abstract
The research aims to identify the nature of the relationship between the level of debt used and economic value added of companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange under the Contrast sizes of these companies , The research addressed the theoretical concepts associated with each of the debt financing , economic added value and Organization size With the use of financial techniques in the practical side to measure these variables, The research community Represent of the shareholding companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange with a choice of intentionally sample of 24 joint stock companies representing approximately 27% of the research community after achieving to certain conditions and for the period of time from (2013-2008) , and Used a set of statistical methods in analysis relationship between the variables and test research hypotheses are linear regression model both types simple and multiple, Pearson correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination , analysis variance one -way ANOVA as well as conducting all of a test (t) and (f) in order to identify the moral statistical relationship between the variables .
Concluded the research results to the existence of a significant effect of level of the debt used in the economic value added , and this effect increases with entry the Organization size as a third variable in the test sample that relationship , The results also showed there are clear differences in the economic value added between the sample companies during the six years of the study . Consequently the research recommended need to the attention of corporate management of approaches based on the value in the measurement of profits earned , and The Importance a realization of the positive impact resulting from use of appropriate ratios of debt in maximize shareholder wealth and value added for the firm .
