Title:
THE IMPACT OF INVESTMENT DECISIONS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE EMPIRICAL STUDY IN BANKING SECTOR OF IRAQ

Authors:
Mohammed S. Ahmed and Ghadhanfer A. Hussein ,Iraq

Abstract:
The main purpose of the study is to gain a deeper understanding of how investment decisions affect the financial performance of the banking sector in Iraq and how in turn they affect their profits. to prove this, the quantitative approach was used, Al Rasheed Bank (Main Branch) has been chosen as a sample for study, and the questionnaire was adopted as an important tool for collecting data which numbered(102) distributed to its employees. statistically, AMOS version 25 and SPSS version 21 were adopted to investigate the patterns of relationships between variables under study. the analysis results indicated to there is a strong positive relationship, statistically significant between investment decisions and financial performance. In this context, several conclusions were reached, the most important of which is that investment decisions play a major role in improving the efficiency of financial performance by exploiting investment opportunities and reducing the level of risks through the optimal selection of invested assets.