Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies

Dividend policy is an important decisions and well researched areas of Financial Management. However, there are very little research has been conducted in Malaysia, especially for Sarawak public listed companies. This research study investigates the detenninant driven dividend policy among Sarawak...

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Main Author: Wong, Mee Nang
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2012
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10115/
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description Dividend policy is an important decisions and well researched areas of Financial Management. However, there are very little research has been conducted in Malaysia, especially for Sarawak public listed companies. This research study investigates the detenninant driven dividend policy among Sarawak public listed companies in Main Market This study examines the effect of cOIP.orate profitability, sales growth, leverage, free cash flow, finn size, liquidity, market-to-book value and profit after tax toward dividend policy among Sarawak public listed companies. The study used dividend payout ratio as proxy of dividend policy. The 25 companies incorporated in Sarawak listed on Main Market in Bursa Malaysia for year 2006-2010 is investigated. The study conducts Kendall's tau b Correlation Test to test the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The findings revealed that there are significant negative relationship between leverage and finn size toward dividend policy. The study provides evidence that leverage is the most important considerations of dividend payout decisions among Sarawak public listed companies .
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spelling unimas-101152023-05-18T08:46:54Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10115/ Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies Wong, Mee Nang HG Finance Dividend policy is an important decisions and well researched areas of Financial Management. However, there are very little research has been conducted in Malaysia, especially for Sarawak public listed companies. This research study investigates the detenninant driven dividend policy among Sarawak public listed companies in Main Market This study examines the effect of cOIP.orate profitability, sales growth, leverage, free cash flow, finn size, liquidity, market-to-book value and profit after tax toward dividend policy among Sarawak public listed companies. The study used dividend payout ratio as proxy of dividend policy. The 25 companies incorporated in Sarawak listed on Main Market in Bursa Malaysia for year 2006-2010 is investigated. The study conducts Kendall's tau b Correlation Test to test the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The findings revealed that there are significant negative relationship between leverage and finn size toward dividend policy. The study provides evidence that leverage is the most important considerations of dividend payout decisions among Sarawak public listed companies . Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10115/2/Mee%20%20%28fulltext%29.pdf Wong, Mee Nang (2012) Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS.
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Wong, Mee Nang
Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies
title Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies
title_full Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies
title_fullStr Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies
title_full_unstemmed Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies
title_short Determinant of dividend policy : evidence from Sarawak public listed companies
title_sort determinant of dividend policy : evidence from sarawak public listed companies
topic HG Finance
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10115/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10115/2/Mee%20%20%28fulltext%29.pdf