A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali

This study was conducted to explore on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction companies in Malaysia. Leverage is using the debt ratio as the dependent variables expressed by formula total liabilities divided by total assets. The indepen...

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Main Author: Zazali, Nurul Atiqah Zharfa
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business Management 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23633/
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description This study was conducted to explore on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction companies in Malaysia. Leverage is using the debt ratio as the dependent variables expressed by formula total liabilities divided by total assets. The independent variables are profitability, liquidity and tangibility. Data from 5 companies, Osiris website had been extracted for 7 years from 2009-2015 on a yearly basis. All data was analyzed using STATA 11 though Panel Data analysis. The finding reveals that liquidity is significant with leverage. Negative relationships exist between liquidity toward leverage while tangibility asset and profitability does not appear to be significantly related to the dependent variable
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spelling uitm-236332019-04-07T07:39:28Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23633/ A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali Zazali, Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Financial leverage This study was conducted to explore on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction companies in Malaysia. Leverage is using the debt ratio as the dependent variables expressed by formula total liabilities divided by total assets. The independent variables are profitability, liquidity and tangibility. Data from 5 companies, Osiris website had been extracted for 7 years from 2009-2015 on a yearly basis. All data was analyzed using STATA 11 though Panel Data analysis. The finding reveals that liquidity is significant with leverage. Negative relationships exist between liquidity toward leverage while tangibility asset and profitability does not appear to be significantly related to the dependent variable Faculty of Business Management 2017 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23633/1/PPb_NURUL%20ATIQAH%20ZHARFA%20ZAZALI%20J%20BM%2017_5.pdf Zazali, Nurul Atiqah Zharfa (2017) A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali. (2017) [Student Project] (Submitted)
spellingShingle Financial leverage
Zazali, Nurul Atiqah Zharfa
A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali
title A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali
title_full A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali
title_fullStr A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali
title_full_unstemmed A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali
title_short A study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in Malaysia / Nurul Atiqah Zharfa Zazali
title_sort study on the relationship between internal factors and financial leverage on selected construction company in malaysia / nurul atiqah zharfa zazali
topic Financial leverage
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23633/