Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat

This paper examines the effect of board size, board composition and CEO duality to capital structure using data on 77 firms listed in Bursa Malaysia from year 2004 to 2006. The study is particularly interested in identifying the effects of positive or negative signs of board size, board composition,...

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Main Author:	Amat, Mohd Aripin
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2008
Subjects:	Planning Business planning Strategic planning
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89418/1/89418.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.894182024-01-14T08:29:13Z Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat 2008 Amat, Mohd Aripin Planning. Business planning. Strategic planning This paper examines the effect of board size, board composition and CEO duality to capital structure using data on 77 firms listed in Bursa Malaysia from year 2004 to 2006. The study is particularly interested in identifying the effects of positive or negative signs of board size, board composition, and CEO duality with capital structure. The study found evidence supporting the hypotheses that board size does have negative relationship with capital structure (debt ratio). There is a positive relation between CEO duality and capital structure but there are insignificant relationship between board composition and capital structure. The findings of the study offer useful point of reference regarding the issue of corporate governance on company capital structure. 2008 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89418/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89418/1/89418.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty of Accountancy Mohamed, Norhayati
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language	English
advisor	Mohamed, Norhayati
topic	Planning Business planning Strategic planning
spellingShingle	Planning Business planning Strategic planning Amat, Mohd Aripin Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat
description	This paper examines the effect of board size, board composition and CEO duality to capital structure using data on 77 firms listed in Bursa Malaysia from year 2004 to 2006. The study is particularly interested in identifying the effects of positive or negative signs of board size, board composition, and CEO duality with capital structure. The study found evidence supporting the hypotheses that board size does have negative relationship with capital structure (debt ratio). There is a positive relation between CEO duality and capital structure but there are insignificant relationship between board composition and capital structure. The findings of the study offer useful point of reference regarding the issue of corporate governance on company capital structure.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Amat, Mohd Aripin
author_facet	Amat, Mohd Aripin
author_sort	Amat, Mohd Aripin
title	Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat
title_short	Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat
title_full	Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat
title_fullStr	Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat
title_full_unstemmed	Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat
title_sort	corporate governance and capital structure of selected malaysian listed companies / mohd aripin amat
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu
granting_department	Faculty of Accountancy
publishDate	2008
url	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89418/1/89418.pdf
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Corporate governance and capital structure of selected Malaysian listed companies / Mohd Aripin Amat

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