Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar

This study aims to examine the financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia by finding the relationship between debt ratio (DR), debt equity ratio (DER), interest coverage ratio (ICR) and long term debt ratio (LTDR). The data are collected from 2008 - 2015 and an...

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Main Author:	Bakar, Siti Najihah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Profits Corporate profits Financial leverage
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57508/1/57508.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.575082022-05-04T14:41:27Z Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar 2017 Bakar, Siti Najihah Profits. Corporate profits Financial leverage This study aims to examine the financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia by finding the relationship between debt ratio (DR), debt equity ratio (DER), interest coverage ratio (ICR) and long term debt ratio (LTDR). The data are collected from 2008 - 2015 and analysis using Pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS). The final result indicated that debt ratio (DR) and debt equity ratio (DER) has negative relationship with dependent variable return on asset (ROA). Therefore interest coverage (ICR) and long term debt ratio (LTDR) has a positive relationship to return on asset (ROA).Therefore, decision of financial leverage is important because it will give an impact towards the firm profitability. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57508/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57508/1/57508.pdf text en public degree UiTM Cawangan Johor Faculty of Business Administrations Ling, Tan Yan Nasrul, Ferri
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language	English
advisor	Ling, Tan Yan Nasrul, Ferri
topic	Profits Corporate profits Financial leverage
spellingShingle	Profits Corporate profits Financial leverage Bakar, Siti Najihah Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar
description	This study aims to examine the financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia by finding the relationship between debt ratio (DR), debt equity ratio (DER), interest coverage ratio (ICR) and long term debt ratio (LTDR). The data are collected from 2008 - 2015 and analysis using Pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS). The final result indicated that debt ratio (DR) and debt equity ratio (DER) has negative relationship with dependent variable return on asset (ROA). Therefore interest coverage (ICR) and long term debt ratio (LTDR) has a positive relationship to return on asset (ROA).Therefore, decision of financial leverage is important because it will give an impact towards the firm profitability.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Bachelor degree
author	Bakar, Siti Najihah
author_facet	Bakar, Siti Najihah
author_sort	Bakar, Siti Najihah
title	Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar
title_short	Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar
title_full	Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar
title_fullStr	Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar
title_full_unstemmed	Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar
title_sort	financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in malaysia/ siti najihah bakar
granting_institution	UiTM Cawangan Johor
granting_department	Faculty of Business Administrations
publishDate	2017
url	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57508/1/57508.pdf
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Financial leverage and profitability of listed construction companies in Malaysia/ Siti Najihah Bakar

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