The effect of capital structure and firm size towards companies profitability: evidence from oil and gas industry in Malaysia / Fardy Haris

Haris, Fardy (2016) The effect of capital structure and firm size towards companies profitability: evidence from oil and gas industry in Malaysia / Fardy Haris. [Student Project] (Submitted)

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyse the significant and positive, negative relationship of the capital structure and firm size toward profitability of oil and gas companies in Malaysia by using panel data method, the data involved the companies in the stock exchange ( Bursa Malaysia) of Malaysia from 2009 to 2015.In this study three variable are used where profitability used as dependent variable and capital structure and firm size are used as independent variable. To analyze the results of research, software Stata 12.0 is used. Result from the study shows that capital structure have a significant positive relationship with profitability. Meanwhile firm size have an insignificant relationship toward profitability of the oil and gas companies in Malaysia.

Metadata

Item Type:	Student Project
Creators:	Creators Email / ID Num. Haris, Fardy 2014248756
Contributors:	Contribution Name Email / ID Num. Advisor Ginsad, Rainah rainahgi@uitm.edu.my Contributor Karia, Dr. Abdul Aziz abdulaziz@uitm.edu.my
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance > Profits. Corporate profits
Divisions:	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah > Kota Kinabalu Campus > Faculty of Business and Management
Programme:	Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Business Economics
Keywords:	Profitability; Capital structure; Firm size
Date:	2016
URI:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/111579