Predicting corporate failure on public listed companies in Malaysian stock market / Nur Kamaliah Azis

This study is worked on developing a best model to predict corporate failure amongst public listed companies in Malaysia. The sample used in this study was selected from the companies listed on Bursa Malaysia. The total number of companies selected is 100 from all different sectors available in Bursa Malaysia. The sample comprises of two different grouped of companies which is 50 distressed (PN17) companies and 50 non-distressed (Non-PN17) companies from the period 2010 to 2012. According to the findings, the result shows that three of the variables are significant except for liquidity ratio which is not significant. In short, the results of the study suggest that financial leverage ratio, profitability ratio and activity ratio have significant influences on corporate failure in Malaysia. Therefore, this suggest that the financial ratio analysis plays an important role in supporting the operations of financial institutions