Predicting corporate failure of Malaysia Listed firm

Wong, Colin Tiing Ping (2013) Predicting corporate failure of Malaysia Listed firm. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS).

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Abstract

Corporate failures are known to have high economic cost due to its impact on the investor, creditors, auditors, market analysts, loan officer and also to the management and employees of the affected companies. Due to this reason, over the years there are a lot of the studies on the prediction of corporate failure. Those models are including univariate analysis, risk index model, multivariate discriminant analysis and conditional probability model. In this study, the logistic regression is selected to predict the corporate failure. There are 86 unhealthy firms and another 86 healthy firms are selected in this study. The variable used in the study will different from the previous study which is only choosing the traditional financial ratio. In this study, it also evaluates the usefulness of the new selected financial ratio to predict the firm failure in Malaysia.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Additional Information: Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2013.
Uncontrolled Keywords: predicting corporate, Corporate failures, Downsizing of organizations, Employees, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, Postgraduate, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Divisions: Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Economics and Business
Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Economics and Business
Depositing User: Karen Kornalius
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2015 03:15
Last Modified: 18 May 2023 07:15
URI: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9081

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