A study on determinants of capital structure of industrial sector in Malaysia / Nur Farah Faiqah Abdullatib

Employing the panel data analysis, the researcher examines the determinants of capital structure of industrial sector in Malaysia. The objective of this research is to indicate the relationship between each company variables and leverages of the companies in industrial sector in Malaysia, to examine the effect of each company variables towards leverage and lastly to propose recommendation accordance to regression results. For this study, albeit all 307 companies under industrial product sector that had public listed in Bursa Malaysia (Main market) are becoming the total population of the study, only thirty-two (32) companies are selected as the sample size. In addition to that, this sample size is gathered within time frame of 8 years which is from 2002 until 2009. Total numbers of observation that will be used in this study are 256 (8 annual reports in the context of each 32 companies).