Debt ratio effect: evidence from Malaysia telecommunication companies / Nur Azhanie Mohamad Jafri

Telecommunications industry is one of the most active industries in the world as it has changed the economy and give changes in a lot of people. While debt ratio is one of the important measurement in any company that run a business. As the debt ratio helps in playing a role as a part of company's assets which are financed by a debt. This research paper aims to determine the effect of debt ratio: evidence from Malaysia telecommunication companies by examine the past performance of the selected company listed in Bursa Malaysia. All the information of the companies are obtained from their annual report which the data are gathered from DataStream database subscribed by UiTM covering from the year 2006 until 2015. The method used to evaluate the company's debt ratio effect are using a panel data. All the data sets for this study comes from the secondary data collection. This research will further explained the factors that have become the main effect by most researchers as the debt ratio effect. They are company size, profitability, asset tangibility, growth opportunity and liquidity. Relationship between the debt ratio and all the five elements of the debt ratio effect will be investigate whether they will have a positive and significant relationships or not.