The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin

The study of this paper aims to determine the relationship of capital structure consists of debt ratio and market competition in Malaysia based on 35 listed companied in Bursa Malaysia. The listed company in Bursa Malaysia that has been chosen in this study from construction, properties and industri...

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Main Author: Husin, Siti Norafizah
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spelling my-uitm-ir.531352022-02-22T03:31:37Z The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin 2017 Husin, Siti Norafizah Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Capital costs Debt financing (Corporations) Financial leverage The study of this paper aims to determine the relationship of capital structure consists of debt ratio and market competition in Malaysia based on 35 listed companied in Bursa Malaysia. The listed company in Bursa Malaysia that has been chosen in this study from construction, properties and industrial products sector for four year period of 2012 to 2015. The Pooled Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method has been use in measuring the relationship in panel data. The data of listed company in Malaysia has been collected from e-sources in DataStream and database online that provided in library UITM. All the data collected refer to the performance of company that stated from the annual report which is financial ratio. The variables return on asset has impact toward debt ratio due to larger asset in the firm can affect the level of leverage. For size of firm also would affect the debt ratio because of the larger firm will has a lower debt and better firm performance. When firm has higher growth rate it shown that the firm has better financial because of higher income and more flexibility. The finding in this study has been obtained which is variables return on asset has negative relationship to the dependent variable while size of firm and growth rate has positive relationship toward debt ratio. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/53135/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/53135/1/53135.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor Faculty of Business Management Mohamad Shafi, Dr Roslina
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Mohamad Shafi, Dr Roslina
topic Financial management
Business finance
Corporation finance
Capital costs
Debt financing (Corporations)
Financial leverage
spellingShingle Financial management
Business finance
Corporation finance
Capital costs
Debt financing (Corporations)
Financial leverage
Husin, Siti Norafizah
The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin
description The study of this paper aims to determine the relationship of capital structure consists of debt ratio and market competition in Malaysia based on 35 listed companied in Bursa Malaysia. The listed company in Bursa Malaysia that has been chosen in this study from construction, properties and industrial products sector for four year period of 2012 to 2015. The Pooled Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method has been use in measuring the relationship in panel data. The data of listed company in Malaysia has been collected from e-sources in DataStream and database online that provided in library UITM. All the data collected refer to the performance of company that stated from the annual report which is financial ratio. The variables return on asset has impact toward debt ratio due to larger asset in the firm can affect the level of leverage. For size of firm also would affect the debt ratio because of the larger firm will has a lower debt and better firm performance. When firm has higher growth rate it shown that the firm has better financial because of higher income and more flexibility. The finding in this study has been obtained which is variables return on asset has negative relationship to the dependent variable while size of firm and growth rate has positive relationship toward debt ratio.
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author Husin, Siti Norafizah
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title The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin
title_short The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin
title_full The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin
title_fullStr The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between market competition and capital structure in Malaysia/ Siti Norafizah Husin
title_sort relationship between market competition and capital structure in malaysia/ siti norafizah husin
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor
granting_department Faculty of Business Management
publishDate 2017
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/53135/1/53135.pdf
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