Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal

This research paper will investigate the financial leverage of manufacturing firms that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. The sample of the data covers ten of manufacturing firm for the ten years period from 2005 until 2015. Panel data is used for the analysis and the ordinary least square method...

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Main Author:	Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera
Format:	Student Project
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Business Management 2017
Subjects:	Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/1/PPb_NUR%20SHAFIERA%20ASPAL%20NAWAL%20J%20BM16_5.pdf

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spelling	uitm-222702019-02-12T09:07:17Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/ Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation This research paper will investigate the financial leverage of manufacturing firms that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. The sample of the data covers ten of manufacturing firm for the ten years period from 2005 until 2015. Panel data is used for the analysis and the ordinary least square method (OLS) is also used to minimize the error in the estimation results. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between financial leverage towards capital structure in manufacturing firms in Malaysia. For this purpose, debt ratios is taken as dependent variable meanwhile profitability, tangibility, firm‟s size, growth and risk are taken as independent variables. The findings of this study shows tangibility, firm‟s size and growth has positive relationship towards debt ratios. Meanwhile, profitability and risk has negative relationship towards debt ratios. Faculty of Business Management 2017-01 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/1/PPb_NUR%20SHAFIERA%20ASPAL%20NAWAL%20J%20BM16_5.pdf Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera (2017) Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal. [Student Project] (Submitted)
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topic	Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation
spellingShingle	Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Investment, capital formation, speculation Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
description	This research paper will investigate the financial leverage of manufacturing firms that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. The sample of the data covers ten of manufacturing firm for the ten years period from 2005 until 2015. Panel data is used for the analysis and the ordinary least square method (OLS) is also used to minimize the error in the estimation results. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between financial leverage towards capital structure in manufacturing firms in Malaysia. For this purpose, debt ratios is taken as dependent variable meanwhile profitability, tangibility, firm‟s size, growth and risk are taken as independent variables. The findings of this study shows tangibility, firm‟s size and growth has positive relationship towards debt ratios. Meanwhile, profitability and risk has negative relationship towards debt ratios.
format	Student Project
author	Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera
author_facet	Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera
author_sort	Aspal Anawal, Nur Shafiera
title	Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
title_short	Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
title_full	Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
title_fullStr	Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
title_full_unstemmed	Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal
title_sort	financial leverage in manufacturing sector in malaysia / nur shafiera aspal anawal
publisher	Faculty of Business Management
publishDate	2017
url	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22270/1/PPb_NUR%20SHAFIERA%20ASPAL%20NAWAL%20J%20BM16_5.pdf
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Financial leverage in manufacturing sector in Malaysia / Nur Shafiera Aspal Anawal

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