The impact of financial leverage towards investment decision of construction firms in Malaysia / Shirley Jasni Changgai

Changgai, Shirley Jasni (2016) The impact of financial leverage towards investment decision of construction firms in Malaysia / Shirley Jasni Changgai. [Student Project] (Submitted)

Abstract

This study has been conducted to determine the impact of financial leverage towards investment decision for Construction's sector that listed in Bursa Malaysia. Based on the previous research, there are some of researcher give an attention on the impact of financial sector on the failure of firm, such as bad financial management and insufficiency of capital. This study is conducted to test the impact of financial leverage towards investment decision of construction firm in Malaysia over the period 2006 until 2015. In this study, there are three independent variables and one dependent variable. Panel regression method is used for the data analysis. Result shows that debt ratio has a negatively significant towards investment decision while current ratio and sales growth have positively significant towards investment decision.

Keywords: Financial Leverage, Investment decision, Panel regression

Metadata

Item Type:	Student Project
Creators:	Creators Email / ID Num. Changgai, Shirley Jasni 2013490982
Contributors:	Contribution Name Email / ID Num. Advisor Rimin, Flicia flicia885@uitm.edu.my
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance > Financial leverage
Divisions:	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah > Kota Kinabalu Campus > Faculty of Business and Management
Programme:	Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Finance
Keywords:	Financial leverage; Investment decision; Panel regression
Date:	2016
URI:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/80460