Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi

Construction companies are in an undeniable state that they could not survive and continue their daily operations without sufficient level of the working capital. This indicates that in today’s financial management, achieving the best capital structure for each firm is very crucial. The construction...

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Main Author: Rozwan Affandi, Anis Nabillah
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business Management 2014
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20957/
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description Construction companies are in an undeniable state that they could not survive and continue their daily operations without sufficient level of the working capital. This indicates that in today’s financial management, achieving the best capital structure for each firm is very crucial. The construction industry also facing lack of capital problem to some extent thus contribute to higher failure rate of construction companies. This paper intends to determine the factors of the contribution to the capital structure of construction firms listed in the Bursa Malaysia market. The data ranges from 2000 to 2013 on a yearly basis. The sample data were derived from financial statements of eight construction companies listed in Bursa Malaysia market with a number of observations totalling 104. Debt ratio is the dependent variable and expressed by formula; total liabilities divided by total assets. The independent variables are profitability, size of company, growth opportunity and liquidity. The results show that the profitability of the construction companies is significant negatively relations to debt ratio while size of company, growth opportunity and liquidity are insignificant in relations to total debt by using panel data method. This indicated that lower profit is the results obtained from using more debt for construction companies. The results also suggest that the companies are depending more on debt financing as to equity financing for expansion and growth.
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spelling uitm-209572018-10-08T01:45:11Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20957/ Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi Rozwan Affandi, Anis Nabillah Malaysia Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Construction companies are in an undeniable state that they could not survive and continue their daily operations without sufficient level of the working capital. This indicates that in today’s financial management, achieving the best capital structure for each firm is very crucial. The construction industry also facing lack of capital problem to some extent thus contribute to higher failure rate of construction companies. This paper intends to determine the factors of the contribution to the capital structure of construction firms listed in the Bursa Malaysia market. The data ranges from 2000 to 2013 on a yearly basis. The sample data were derived from financial statements of eight construction companies listed in Bursa Malaysia market with a number of observations totalling 104. Debt ratio is the dependent variable and expressed by formula; total liabilities divided by total assets. The independent variables are profitability, size of company, growth opportunity and liquidity. The results show that the profitability of the construction companies is significant negatively relations to debt ratio while size of company, growth opportunity and liquidity are insignificant in relations to total debt by using panel data method. This indicated that lower profit is the results obtained from using more debt for construction companies. The results also suggest that the companies are depending more on debt financing as to equity financing for expansion and growth. Faculty of Business Management 2014-12-07 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20957/1/PPb_ANIS%20NABILAH%20ROZWAN%20AFFANDI%20BM%20J%2014_5.pdf Rozwan Affandi, Anis Nabillah (2014) Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi. (2014) [Student Project] (Submitted)
spellingShingle Malaysia
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
Rozwan Affandi, Anis Nabillah
Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi
title Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi
title_full Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi
title_fullStr Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi
title_short Determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in Malaysia / Anis Nabillah Rozwan Affandi
title_sort determinants of capital structure and the effects towards debt ratio of listed construction companies in malaysia / anis nabillah rozwan affandi
topic Malaysia
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20957/