This research aims to identify the nature of the cash flow statement, methods of preparing it and its indicators. Identify the nature of profitability and explain its indicators, shed light on the topic of predicting the financial distress of economic units, the causes of distress and ways to treat it, and use cash flow and profitability indicators to help predict the financial distress of Iraqi industrial companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange in the second and third years preceding the financial distress. The research community is represented by the industrial companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange, which number (21) companies until January 2023, while the study sample is the Iraqi Engineering Works Company in order to apply the current research in it. The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which was that the increase in cases of financial distress to which Iraqi industrial companies are exposed is due to the lack of instructions or directives specific to the industrial sector and the failure to use financial indicators through quantitative methods and methods to predict financial distress before it occurs, and to determine what the financial position will be in the future.

The percentage of Adequacy Flows Cash Operational and indicator Activity Operational and revenue on assets from the flow are two examples of cash flow events that help improve the quality of financial reporting. The research attempts to address the theoretical framework of the cash flow statement. According to the following premise, cash flow metrics have the potential to improve the quality of financial reporting. The Iraqi General Tax Authority for 2022 and 2023 serves as the study sample. The study came to several results, chief among them being that the cash flow list can offer Since these measures express the continuity of cash flows for the research sample, they would help improve the quality of financial reporting by measuring the quality of the sample's profits in a way that improves performance and is consistent with the variables supplementary the contemporary business environment for the research sample related to the Iraqi General Tax Authority.