The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia

Predicting financial distress among SMEs can have a significant impact on the economy as it serves as an effective early warning signal.The study develops distress prediction models combining financial, non-financial and governance variables particularly ownership and board structures, on the like...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau, Ma’aji, Muhammad M., Khaw, Lee Hwei
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16288/1/13.pdf
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author Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau
Ma’aji, Muhammad M.
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description Predicting financial distress among SMEs can have a significant impact on the economy as it serves as an effective early warning signal.The study develops distress prediction models combining financial, non-financial and governance variables particularly ownership and board structures, on the likelihood of financial distress by using the logit model.The final sample for the estimation model consists of 172 companies with 50 percent non-failed cases and 50 percent failed cases for the period of 2000 to 2012.The prediction models perform relatively well especially model 3 that incorporates governance, financial and non financial variables, with an overall accuracy rate of 93.6 percent and 91.2 percent in the estimated and holdout samples.This evidence shows that the models serve as effective early warning signals which are beneficial for monitoring and evaluation purposes.Controlling shareholder, number of directors and gender of managing director are found to be significant predictors of financially distressed SMEs.
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spelling uum-162882016-04-12T06:03:00Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16288/ The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau Ma’aji, Muhammad M. Khaw, Lee Hwei HG Finance Predicting financial distress among SMEs can have a significant impact on the economy as it serves as an effective early warning signal.The study develops distress prediction models combining financial, non-financial and governance variables particularly ownership and board structures, on the likelihood of financial distress by using the logit model.The final sample for the estimation model consists of 172 companies with 50 percent non-failed cases and 50 percent failed cases for the period of 2000 to 2012.The prediction models perform relatively well especially model 3 that incorporates governance, financial and non financial variables, with an overall accuracy rate of 93.6 percent and 91.2 percent in the estimated and holdout samples.This evidence shows that the models serve as effective early warning signals which are beneficial for monitoring and evaluation purposes.Controlling shareholder, number of directors and gender of managing director are found to be significant predictors of financially distressed SMEs. 2015-10-02 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16288/1/13.pdf Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau and Ma’aji, Muhammad M. and Khaw, Lee Hwei (2015) The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia. In: 11th Asian Academy of Management International Conference 2015 (AAMC 2015), 2nd - 4th October 2015, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.aamc2015.usm.my/
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title The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia
title_full The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia
title_fullStr The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia
title_short The value of governance variables in predicting financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia
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