Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim

This research paper mainly focuses on firm performance in information and technology sector as the technology able to thrive the economic growth. This investigation has been performed on a sample of 13 companies of information and technology sector for period of 5 years starting from 2012 to 2016, r...

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Main Author: Hassim, Syahmin Nadiah
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Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling my-uitm-ir.938042024-06-26T15:45:50Z Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim 2017 Hassim, Syahmin Nadiah Information technology. Information systems This research paper mainly focuses on firm performance in information and technology sector as the technology able to thrive the economic growth. This investigation has been performed on a sample of 13 companies of information and technology sector for period of 5 years starting from 2012 to 2016, resulting total numbers of observations of 61. Firm's performance was measured by using return on asset as dependent variable that mostly supported and applied by previous researchers. However, the factors used to test on the firm performance are long term debt to total assets, short term debt to total assets, debt to equity ratio and tax which act as independent variables. The data is gathered from annual report of Wall Street Journal and a multiple linear regression is used in this study. In addition, econometric tests are employed to observed the relationship between factors of capital structure on firm's financial performance. Interactive software package E-views9.5 would be used for testing and analyzing the data collected. Using pooling panel data regression method, the expected findings of long term debt to total assets, short term debt to total assets, debt to equity ratio and tax has negative relationship with firm's performance. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93804/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93804/2/93804.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor Faculty of Business Management Ahmad, Zuraidah Md Isa, Mohamad Azwan
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Ahmad, Zuraidah
Md Isa, Mohamad Azwan
topic Information technology
Information systems
spellingShingle Information technology
Information systems
Hassim, Syahmin Nadiah
Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim
description This research paper mainly focuses on firm performance in information and technology sector as the technology able to thrive the economic growth. This investigation has been performed on a sample of 13 companies of information and technology sector for period of 5 years starting from 2012 to 2016, resulting total numbers of observations of 61. Firm's performance was measured by using return on asset as dependent variable that mostly supported and applied by previous researchers. However, the factors used to test on the firm performance are long term debt to total assets, short term debt to total assets, debt to equity ratio and tax which act as independent variables. The data is gathered from annual report of Wall Street Journal and a multiple linear regression is used in this study. In addition, econometric tests are employed to observed the relationship between factors of capital structure on firm's financial performance. Interactive software package E-views9.5 would be used for testing and analyzing the data collected. Using pooling panel data regression method, the expected findings of long term debt to total assets, short term debt to total assets, debt to equity ratio and tax has negative relationship with firm's performance.
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title Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim
title_short Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim
title_full Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim
title_fullStr Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim
title_full_unstemmed Capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / Syahmin Nadiah Hassim
title_sort capital structure on firm's performance: information and technology industry / syahmin nadiah hassim
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor
granting_department Faculty of Business Management
publishDate 2017
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93804/2/93804.pdf
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