Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia

ThiS study observed data for 512 public listed companies in Malaysia" to find the relationship between cash holdings and corporate govema~ce. Using data from Data Stream and firms' annual reports for the financial year 2009, this study found that only Board Independence has positive relati...

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Main Author:	Azira Hanani, Ab. Rahman
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	HB Economic Theory
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9047/1/Azira%20Hanani%20Ab.%20Rahman%20ft.pdf
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spelling	my-unimas-ir.90472023-03-28T06:23:15Z Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia 2011 Azira Hanani, Ab. Rahman HB Economic Theory ThiS study observed data for 512 public listed companies in Malaysia" to find the relationship between cash holdings and corporate govema~ce. Using data from Data Stream and firms' annual reports for the financial year 2009, this study found that only Board Independence has positive relationships with cash holdings. Meanwhile, there are insignificant relationships -between cash holdings and Board Size as well as CEO DualitVThis study also examined the relationship of cash holding with finn size, capital expenditure, cash flow, leverage, dividend, Market to Book and working capital. 5 out of 7 control variables show significant relationship. From the study, it is found that cash holdings have positive relationship with cash flow ratio, dividend, leverage ratio, market to book ratio and working capital ratio. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2011 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9047/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9047/1/Azira%20Hanani%20Ab.%20Rahman%20ft.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) Faculty of Economics and Business
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spellingShingle	HB Economic Theory Azira Hanani, Ab. Rahman Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia
description	ThiS study observed data for 512 public listed companies in Malaysia" to find the relationship between cash holdings and corporate govema~ce. Using data from Data Stream and firms' annual reports for the financial year 2009, this study found that only Board Independence has positive relationships with cash holdings. Meanwhile, there are insignificant relationships -between cash holdings and Board Size as well as CEO DualitVThis study also examined the relationship of cash holding with finn size, capital expenditure, cash flow, leverage, dividend, Market to Book and working capital. 5 out of 7 control variables show significant relationship. From the study, it is found that cash holdings have positive relationship with cash flow ratio, dividend, leverage ratio, market to book ratio and working capital ratio.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Azira Hanani, Ab. Rahman
author_facet	Azira Hanani, Ab. Rahman
author_sort	Azira Hanani, Ab. Rahman
title	Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia
title_short	Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia
title_full	Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia
title_sort	corporate governance and firm cash holdings in malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
granting_department	Faculty of Economics and Business
publishDate	2011
url	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9047/1/Azira%20Hanani%20Ab.%20Rahman%20ft.pdf
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Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in Malaysia

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