The prediction of financial distress among listed manufacturing companies / Aliah Madihah Mohd Dom

During the occurrence of global financial crisis, the percentage of bankruptcy in Malaysia had increased and most of the companies on that tine bear the problem of financial difficulties. This statement can be strengthening when Hernandez Tinoco & Wilson (2013) also said about the same matter. A...

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Main Author: Mohd Dom, Aliah Madihah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93717/1/93717.pdf
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Summary:During the occurrence of global financial crisis, the percentage of bankruptcy in Malaysia had increased and most of the companies on that tine bear the problem of financial difficulties. This statement can be strengthening when Hernandez Tinoco & Wilson (2013) also said about the same matter. According to them, the financial crisis in 2008 has resulted on the increment of the problem of financial distressed. Companies under the sector of manufacturing are the most affected on that time. Due to that, several manufacturing companies which listed under PN17 in Bursa Malaysia have been selected as a sample for this research. Thus, this research is aims to predict the financial distress among these companies. Several variables had been selected where the dependent variable will be the financial distressed and for independent variables; it consists of firm's asset productivity, liquidity, capital structure and their profitability over time. In order to conduct this research, secondary data are used and the data were collected from the financial reports during 2013 until 2016, on the basis of annually, through the platforms of DataStream Professionals.