Investigation of Micro and Macro Economic Factors Affecting Corporate Financial Performance: A Fuzzy Dimensional Approach

Financial indicators are good benchmarks for policymakers who want to assess the current state of the economy and predict the future, especially for creditors and the central bank, and there are several reasons to justify this. The data on which the financial indices are calculated is essentially defined by looking at the future and possibly taking into account market expectations of the macro data. Financial indicators may also directly affect the future state of the economy or be influenced by macroeconomic and micro indicators. This study attempts to conduct a systematic and comprehensive study to identify all the measures that may be likely to affect profitability and other key indicators of financial performance and provide a complete database of these measures. For this purpose, a combination of knowledge domain and content analysis methods has been used to select effective metrics. Finally, the most effective factors are determined through interviews with experts and the fuzzy DEMATEL method.