Investigating the Relationship between Risk, Financial Flexibility and the Role of Product Market Competition

It is important that financial flexibility is very important in the development of company financial decisions in the market. Financial by researchers is considered as one of the important components of the company's decisions, as well as the company's viewpoints to risk the company's decisions. Therefore, this study was aimed at studying the relationship between risk, financial flexibility and the role of product market competition in Tehran Stock Exchange companies. Research method of this study based on the purpose of implementation, of the type of applied research, which is done in a correlation method. Information required for testing and analyzing hypotheses from financial statements and their accompanying commentary notes from 130 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange as a statistical sample of 2014 to 2019 and has been edited. Systematic removal method (screening) was also used to determine the sample size and size. Linear regression data and linear regression model are used to test the research hypotheses. The findings from the test hypotheses test showed that the risk and competitiveness of the product market are positively related to financial flexibility and that product market competition has no effect on the relationship between risk and financial flexibility.