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The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir

The capital structure remains as an important issue in the financial management field. The capital structure is separation between debt and equity choices as main financing options in business management. However, the 2007/2008 global financial crisis shows the essential of capital structure in busi...

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Main Author: Basir, Harianah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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General works. Financial institutions
Malaysia
International finance
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
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spelling my.uitm.ir.791342023-06-15T02:03:27Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79134/ The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir Basir, Harianah General works. Financial institutions Malaysia International finance Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance The capital structure remains as an important issue in the financial management field. The capital structure is separation between debt and equity choices as main financing options in business management. However, the 2007/2008 global financial crisis shows the essential of capital structure in business operation since the Great Depression of 1930s. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation is to enhance capital structure literature by examining the determinants of capital structure decisions and the impact of the 2007/2008 global financial crisis towards Malaysia public listed companies. The sample used 272 public listed companies in Bursa Malaysia covers ten years observations period from 2003 until 2012. This dissertation prefer specific factors to determine the capital structure which shows most significance in the literature such as profitability, firm size, asset tangibility, growth opportunity, non-debt tax shields and liquidity. By using a leverage ratio as a proxy to capital structure decisions and using ordinary least square multiple regression estimation model, the result shows that firm size has a positively significant relationship with leverage ratio, while asset tangibility and liquidity has a negative correlation with leverage. The finding also shows that Malaysia public listed companies used less debt as their main options for financing decisions. The results remain same even after take into consideration the global financial crisis, pre crisis (2004-2006) and post crisis (2009-2012) except the changes of significant level on non-debt tax shields variables. 2015 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79134/1/79134.pdf The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir. (2015) [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic General works. Financial institutions
Malaysia
International finance
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
spellingShingle General works. Financial institutions
Malaysia
International finance
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
Basir, Harianah
The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir
description The capital structure remains as an important issue in the financial management field. The capital structure is separation between debt and equity choices as main financing options in business management. However, the 2007/2008 global financial crisis shows the essential of capital structure in business operation since the Great Depression of 1930s. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation is to enhance capital structure literature by examining the determinants of capital structure decisions and the impact of the 2007/2008 global financial crisis towards Malaysia public listed companies. The sample used 272 public listed companies in Bursa Malaysia covers ten years observations period from 2003 until 2012. This dissertation prefer specific factors to determine the capital structure which shows most significance in the literature such as profitability, firm size, asset tangibility, growth opportunity, non-debt tax shields and liquidity. By using a leverage ratio as a proxy to capital structure decisions and using ordinary least square multiple regression estimation model, the result shows that firm size has a positively significant relationship with leverage ratio, while asset tangibility and liquidity has a negative correlation with leverage. The finding also shows that Malaysia public listed companies used less debt as their main options for financing decisions. The results remain same even after take into consideration the global financial crisis, pre crisis (2004-2006) and post crisis (2009-2012) except the changes of significant level on non-debt tax shields variables.
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title The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir
title_short The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir
title_full The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir
title_fullStr The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir
title_full_unstemmed The determinants of capital structure decision in Malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / Harianah Binti Basir
title_sort determinants of capital structure decision in malaysia: pre and post global financial crisis period / harianah binti basir
publishDate 2015
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79134/1/79134.pdf
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