Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
This research paper will investigate the financial leverage of manufacturing firms that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. The sample of the data covers ten of manufacturing firm for the ten years period from 2005 until 2015. Panel data is used for the analysis and the ordinary least square method...
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/1/PPb_NUR%20SHAFIERA%20ASPAL%20NAWAL%20J%20BM16_5.pdf |
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| author | Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera |
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| description | This research paper will investigate the financial leverage of manufacturing firms
that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. The sample of the data covers ten of
manufacturing firm for the ten years period from 2005 until 2015. Panel data is
used for the analysis and the ordinary least square method (OLS) is also used to
minimize the error in the estimation results. The primary objective of this research
is to investigate the relationship between financial leverage towards capital
structure in manufacturing firms in Malaysia. For this purpose, debt ratios is taken
as dependent variable meanwhile profitability, tangibility, firm‟s size, growth and
risk are taken as independent variables. The findings of this study shows
tangibility, firm‟s size and growth has positive relationship towards debt ratios.
Meanwhile, profitability and risk has negative relationship towards debt ratios. |
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| spelling | uitm.eprints-22702019-02-12T09:07:17Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/ Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation This research paper will investigate the financial leverage of manufacturing firms that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. The sample of the data covers ten of manufacturing firm for the ten years period from 2005 until 2015. Panel data is used for the analysis and the ordinary least square method (OLS) is also used to minimize the error in the estimation results. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between financial leverage towards capital structure in manufacturing firms in Malaysia. For this purpose, debt ratios is taken as dependent variable meanwhile profitability, tangibility, firm‟s size, growth and risk are taken as independent variables. The findings of this study shows tangibility, firm‟s size and growth has positive relationship towards debt ratios. Meanwhile, profitability and risk has negative relationship towards debt ratios. Faculty of Business Management 2017-01 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/1/PPb_NUR%20SHAFIERA%20ASPAL%20NAWAL%20J%20BM16_5.pdf Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal. (2017) [Student Project] (Submitted) |
| spellingShingle | Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal |
| title | Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal |
| title_full | Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal |
| title_fullStr | Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal |
| title_short | Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal |
| title_sort | financial leverage in manufacturing sector in malaysia nur shafiera aspal anawal |
| topic | Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/1/PPb_NUR%20SHAFIERA%20ASPAL%20NAWAL%20J%20BM16_5.pdf |
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