The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar

Nowadays, leverage is recognized to be higher in the listed companies in Malaysia stated in The Edge Market. This may indicate the company to have a financial risk that may lead to a bankruptcy. Moreover, the qualification of the management also an important factor that may affect the strategic deci...

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Main Author: Mokhtar, Najihah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/62077/1/62077.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.620772022-07-20T23:49:02Z The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar 2018 Mokhtar, Najihah Organization Financial leverage Nowadays, leverage is recognized to be higher in the listed companies in Malaysia stated in The Edge Market. This may indicate the company to have a financial risk that may lead to a bankruptcy. Moreover, the qualification of the management also an important factor that may affect the strategic decision in a firm. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of the leverage and managerial skills towards the shareholder's return. The study selected the top 30 listed company of Bursa Malaysia as sample. The data collected are the proxies of leverage, managerial skills, size, price to book ratio, effective tax rate and industry effects. The data are collected from the Thomson Reuters from the year 2013 until 2017. This study is using panel data and applying cross-sectional regression. The study expects leverage and managerial skills to have significant impact toward shareholders' return. 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/62077/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/62077/1/62077.pdf text en public degree UiTM Cawangan Johor Bachelor of Business Administration (Investment Management) Kadri, Dr. Mohd Halim Mohamad Shafi, Dr. Roslina
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Kadri, Dr. Mohd Halim
Mohamad Shafi, Dr. Roslina
topic Organization
Financial leverage
spellingShingle Organization
Financial leverage
Mokhtar, Najihah
The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar
description Nowadays, leverage is recognized to be higher in the listed companies in Malaysia stated in The Edge Market. This may indicate the company to have a financial risk that may lead to a bankruptcy. Moreover, the qualification of the management also an important factor that may affect the strategic decision in a firm. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of the leverage and managerial skills towards the shareholder's return. The study selected the top 30 listed company of Bursa Malaysia as sample. The data collected are the proxies of leverage, managerial skills, size, price to book ratio, effective tax rate and industry effects. The data are collected from the Thomson Reuters from the year 2013 until 2017. This study is using panel data and applying cross-sectional regression. The study expects leverage and managerial skills to have significant impact toward shareholders' return.
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title The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar
title_short The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar
title_full The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar
title_fullStr The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar
title_full_unstemmed The impact of leverage and managerial skills towards shareholder's return in the top 30 listed companies in Malaysia / Najihah Mokhtar
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granting_institution UiTM Cawangan Johor
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