The relationship of capital structure on firm performance of listed firms in Southeast Asian countries / Mohd Shafique Hassan

This research aims to investigate whether the relationship of capital structure elements like short term debt to total assets, long term debt to total assets and total debt to total assets have any relations on firm performance of selected firms listed on Southeast Asian Stock Exchanges over 8 years from 2008 to 2015. The objective are firstly to identify the relationship between short term debt to total assets ratio and firm performance, secondly to identify the relationship between the ratio Of long term debt to total assets and firm performance and thirdly to identify the relationship between total debt to total assets ratio and firm performance. The variables are consist Of dependent variable which is firm performance measured by return on equity (ROE) meanwhile the independent variables are leverage ratios measured by short term debt to total assets, long term debt to total assets, total debt to total assets. For data or sample description, there are several types of data that has been used in conducting this research study such as journal, electronic sources and internet. For statistical or econometric method, this model was tested using EViews software application and test use descriptive, least square, and multicollinearity.