Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.

This project aims to analyze the underlying structure of the vast multitude of variables derived from financial statements of 105 companies listed on KLSE and reduced them into a parsimonious set of factors that accounted for 70.06% of the information contained in these variables. The factors are in...

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Main Authors: Chan, Mei Ling., Khisi Gisele Tjan., Loh, Wai San.
Other Authors: Kwok, Branson Chi Hing
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10574
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author Chan, Mei Ling.
Khisi Gisele Tjan.
Loh, Wai San.
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description This project aims to analyze the underlying structure of the vast multitude of variables derived from financial statements of 105 companies listed on KLSE and reduced them into a parsimonious set of factors that accounted for 70.06% of the information contained in these variables. The factors are interpreted as Size/Growth, Solvency, Profitability, Liquidity and Sales Efficiency.
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spelling ntu-10356/105742023-05-19T06:24:03Z Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis. Chan, Mei Ling. Khisi Gisele Tjan. Loh, Wai San. Kwok, Branson Chi Hing Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business::Accounting::Financial statements and analysis This project aims to analyze the underlying structure of the vast multitude of variables derived from financial statements of 105 companies listed on KLSE and reduced them into a parsimonious set of factors that accounted for 70.06% of the information contained in these variables. The factors are interpreted as Size/Growth, Solvency, Profitability, Liquidity and Sales Efficiency. 2008-09-24T07:45:20Z 2008-09-24T07:45:20Z 1999 1999 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10574 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
spellingShingle DRNTU::Business::Accounting::Financial statements and analysis
Chan, Mei Ling.
Khisi Gisele Tjan.
Loh, Wai San.
Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.
title Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.
title_full Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.
title_fullStr Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.
title_full_unstemmed Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.
title_short Accounting information in financial statements of Malaysia's listed companies : application of factor analysis.
title_sort accounting information in financial statements of malaysia s listed companies application of factor analysis
topic DRNTU::Business::Accounting::Financial statements and analysis
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10574
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