UNITEN Business School (UBS)

Permanent URI for this collection

https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/38904
Final Year Project (FYP)

Browse

Browsing UNITEN Business School (UBS) by Subject "Corporate governance"

Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    A study of stock price, agency cost and company performance towards corporate governance index in Malaysia
    (2015)
    Amirah bt Abdul Ghapor
    Demonstrating good corporate governance practice by management can enhance transparency and thus imporve firms' performance. Despite that, many researchers are still searching which attributes that have strong correlation with the corporate governance.
      25  186
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Corporate governance attributes and the shariah compliance disclosure of Malaysian Shariah - approved companies
    (2015)
    Padman Mahalingam
    This paper examines the corporate governance attributes and the disclosure of Shahriah compliance the extent of Shahriah-Approved Companies. The objective of this study is to examine the extent of Shariah compliance disclosure among the Malaysian Shariah Approved-Companies (ShACs) and to investigate the association between the board aatributes and Shariah compliances dosclosure of ShacS.
      116  333
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in Malaysian government linked companies (GLCs)
    (2025-12-29)
    Deneskumar s/o Krishnan
    ;
    Rubeni d/o Sarawanabawan
    ;
    Shavinder Kaur d/o Mahinder Singh
    ;
    Thiviya d/o Selvamani
    A well governed organization has the ability to minimize and even address the issue ofearnings management. However, ascorporate governance continues to bea subject ofconcern, earnings management stillemerges asan unsettled issue. Hence, thisstudy attempts to investigate the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in the Government Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia since less prior researches have included GLCs in their studies. In order to achieve this objective, a total of 16 GLCs from the G20 list were selected and analyzed. The required data was extracted from the annual reports of respective GLCs for a period of three years from year 2014 until year 2016. Corporate governance mechanisms namely CEO duality, board meetings, audit committee meetings and cross directorship were employed as the independent variables of this study and discretionary accruals was used as proxy for the earnings management. Findings from thestudy show that corporate governance mechanisms have no relationship with the earning$ management activities of GLCs.
      11  39
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    The corporate governance determinants of financial distress : evidence from Malaysian industrial sector
    (2025-12-29)
    Intan Shufiany bt Zulkifli
    ;
    Nina Nadhirah Bt Abd Wahab
    ;
    Nur Ain Atikah bt Sajaratul Halim
    ;
    Nurul Afiqah Binti Jamali
    This study is aims to investigate the relationship between Corporate Governance (CG) determinants and financial distress among the industrial company in Malaysia. The five CG determinants that were identified are board size, board independent, CEO duality, director ownership, and director remuneration. The data is collected by annual report 2016 to investigate the CG determinants that contribute to financial distress or non-financial distress company. The sample for this study is 225 Industrial Companies in Malaysia. The financial distress is measured by Z-score model by Altman. The results show that board size and director ownership ship have a significant relationship with financial distress among industrial sector companies in Malaysia. The most significant corporate governance determinants in financial distress are board size and director ownership.
      21  60
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    The impact of corporate governance and company characteristics on internet financial reporting in Malaysian listed company
    (2015)
    Abdul Hafiz bin Abdul Hisham
    Most companies have their own website for them to disclose the information about theur profile and also their financial reporting. Nowadays, Internet Financial Reporting seems very important for the users while the companies play the important role to provide the information needed within the guideline and transparency.
      22  100