The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis

This study observed about the factors that influence the capital structure of GLCs in Malaysia. The capital structure can give bad impact to the GLCs if wrong decisions is made regarding the capital structure for their own operations. This study aims to examine the deteminants of capital structure a...

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Main Author:	Mohd Razis, Nabiha
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	Investment capital formation speculation
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93715/1/93715.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.937152024-04-11T23:39:30Z The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis 2018 Mohd Razis, Nabiha Investment, capital formation, speculation This study observed about the factors that influence the capital structure of GLCs in Malaysia. The capital structure can give bad impact to the GLCs if wrong decisions is made regarding the capital structure for their own operations. This study aims to examine the deteminants of capital structure and its relationship with the determinants as well as to determine the most significant factors that influence the capital structure. It influenced by the variables which include profitability, liquidity, tangibility and firm size. Fixed Effect Regression Model has been selected in this study with the data collected from 2002 until 2016 based on the annual report of 30 GLCs in Malaysia. The study shows that all independent variables; profitability, liquidity, tangibility and firm size have negative relationship with the debt ratio. These variables are significant with the debt ratio at 5% significant level. In conclusion, the companies must make a correct decision making on their capital structure which can influence their daily operations. A wrong decision making will give negative impacts for their companies. 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93715/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93715/1/93715.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Business Management Mohamad Azmin, Nur Azwani
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description	This study observed about the factors that influence the capital structure of GLCs in Malaysia. The capital structure can give bad impact to the GLCs if wrong decisions is made regarding the capital structure for their own operations. This study aims to examine the deteminants of capital structure and its relationship with the determinants as well as to determine the most significant factors that influence the capital structure. It influenced by the variables which include profitability, liquidity, tangibility and firm size. Fixed Effect Regression Model has been selected in this study with the data collected from 2002 until 2016 based on the annual report of 30 GLCs in Malaysia. The study shows that all independent variables; profitability, liquidity, tangibility and firm size have negative relationship with the debt ratio. These variables are significant with the debt ratio at 5% significant level. In conclusion, the companies must make a correct decision making on their capital structure which can influence their daily operations. A wrong decision making will give negative impacts for their companies.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Bachelor degree
author	Mohd Razis, Nabiha
author_facet	Mohd Razis, Nabiha
author_sort	Mohd Razis, Nabiha
title	The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis
title_short	The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis
title_full	The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis
title_fullStr	The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis
title_full_unstemmed	The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis
title_sort	determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in malaysia / nabiha mohd razis
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu
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The determinants of capital structure: evidence from government-linked companies in Malaysia / Nabiha Mohd Razis

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