The impact of leverage and size of firm on financial performance: empirical study on cement and chemical industry

The study is conducted for the bringing new way and recent information of the industry for the verification of old concepts. We have taken two industries from Karachi Stock Exchange for providing solid grounds to support our hypotheses. The data is collected from the period of 2008–2014. Though this era is consider as most uncertain as many companies were defaulted due incompatibility for operations. After analysis, we can say that Leverage and size effect the performance but not in all cases or in all industries.