Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman

This study was carried out to examine whether cash flow can be a good predictor to debt restructuring companies. Sixty companies of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) have been identified as a sample in the current study. Thirty companies were classified as debt restructuring and another 30 matching...

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Main Author: Abd Rahman, Shariful Amran
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Language:English
Published: 2001
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1903/
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description This study was carried out to examine whether cash flow can be a good predictor to debt restructuring companies. Sixty companies of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) have been identified as a sample in the current study. Thirty companies were classified as debt restructuring and another 30 matching companies were classified as non-debt restructuring companies. The classification was done in order to determine the differences between cash flow related ratios such as cash flow changes, cash flow over total debt, cash flow over total assets, cash flow over current liabilities and cash flow per share issued. The study hypothesized that the means for the cash flow based ratios have no significant difference between debt restructuring and non-debt restructuring companies. Based on trend analysis, there is no obvious pattern obtained from the graph plotted using average figure for each of the cash flow related ratios. Trend analysis and Mann- Whitney U test show that no significant difference exists between the means for debt restructuring and non-debt restructuring companies for all the cash flow related ratios. The results from stepwise logistic regression analysis further strengthen the hypothesis that the cash flow information does not have predictive power. Even though cash flow information has no predictive ability to forecast financial distress, it is useful for inter-company comparison.
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spelling uitm-19032022-04-04T03:54:08Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1903/ Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman Abd Rahman, Shariful Amran Cash handbook. Cash flow HG Finance This study was carried out to examine whether cash flow can be a good predictor to debt restructuring companies. Sixty companies of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) have been identified as a sample in the current study. Thirty companies were classified as debt restructuring and another 30 matching companies were classified as non-debt restructuring companies. The classification was done in order to determine the differences between cash flow related ratios such as cash flow changes, cash flow over total debt, cash flow over total assets, cash flow over current liabilities and cash flow per share issued. The study hypothesized that the means for the cash flow based ratios have no significant difference between debt restructuring and non-debt restructuring companies. Based on trend analysis, there is no obvious pattern obtained from the graph plotted using average figure for each of the cash flow related ratios. Trend analysis and Mann- Whitney U test show that no significant difference exists between the means for debt restructuring and non-debt restructuring companies for all the cash flow related ratios. The results from stepwise logistic regression analysis further strengthen the hypothesis that the cash flow information does not have predictive power. Even though cash flow information has no predictive ability to forecast financial distress, it is useful for inter-company comparison. 2001 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1903/1/TM_SHARIFUL%20AMRAN%20ABD%20RAHMAN%20AC%2001_5%201.pdf Abd Rahman, Shariful Amran (2001) Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman. (2001) Masters thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/1903.pdf>
spellingShingle Cash handbook. Cash flow
HG Finance
Abd Rahman, Shariful Amran
Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman
title Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman
title_full Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman
title_fullStr Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman
title_full_unstemmed Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman
title_short Empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / Shariful Amran Abd Rahman
title_sort empirical study on the usage of cash flow statement as a tool to predict company financial distress / shariful amran abd rahman
topic Cash handbook. Cash flow
HG Finance
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1903/