Determinants of capital structure for listed property firms in Malaysia / Muhammad Yusof Abu Bakar

In term of capital structure choice, the property industry have their own uniqueness compare to other industries. The uniqueness of the property firms make an Interest to conduct this study besides that, a factors like market regulation, market environment, the manager decision in their financial behaviour also made this study are interesting to be explore or to be conduct. The purpose of this study to know the valuable factor in affecting capital structure selection for property firms in Malaysia. This paper will focus on 30 property firms that are listed on Bursa Malaysia, the 30 property firms IS selected based on their market capitalization. The debt ratio in this study will act the dependent variable and the firm size, asset tangibility, growth opportunity and profitability will become as the independent variables. Under this study it will focus for the year of 2017 and the data can derived or obtain from company annual report for each property firm. Then the number of observation for this study is 97. This research will use quantitative secondary data which is cross sectional data and multiple regression model is use to interpret by the ordinary least squares (OLS) as the technique to determine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables.