Taiping Municipal Council / Norshaera Abdul Karim

My memorable experience and enlightening industrial training began at Taiping Municipal Council (TMC) for period of 6-months. TMC is government based company that functioning in town planning, social and economic development and general functions of urban infrastructure. From this industrial training, I got to develop new knowledge and skills on function of licensing and enforcement department and help me to improve my skills on communication and team work. Move forward, in this paper, the study of factor affecting company efficiency in healthcare industry have been conduct among 10 listed companies in Malaysia. The dependent variable which is efficiency is measured by using proxy of earning after tax divide by total equity. The factors included are using proxy of return on asset, asset turnover and total asset. This study is using secondary data from Eikon database which the collected data are from company’s ratio metric, annual balance sheet and income statement for the period of 10 years. Panel specification test, descriptive statistics and diagnostic test was applied to observe the relationship between different variables and efficiency. The results of this analysis revealed that only one variable that positively and significantly related with efficiency which is return on asset (ROA). The remaining variables showed insignificant relationship with efficiency. ROA that shows positive relationship with efficiency are advice to maintain it performance by increase their profit and take an initiative to control the company’s expenses while other variables should increase their total asset and liquidate an unnecessary asset.