QR Code Link : Type : Academic Journal Main Author : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ben Chin-Fook Yap, Prof. Dr. Zulkifflee Mohamad & Asst. Prof. Dr. K-Rine Chong Title : A Longitudinal And Cross-Industry Study On The Stability Of Financial Ratios Of Malaysian Companies Varying Form of Title : Accounting and Finance Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, (2013), Page 45 Content Type : still image (rdacontent) Media Type : computer (rdamedia) Carrier Type : online resource (rdacarrier)

Publisher : Accounting and Finance Research Year of Publication : 2013 Summary : The purpose of this study is to test whether a set of six financial ratios that have been used extensively by practitioners and researchers and found to be useful for various purposes including company financial performance evaluations are stable across three different industry sectors and whether they are stable over time. The sample comprises a total of 180 listed companies covering a period of five years from 2006 to 2010. Analysis of variance and post hoc multiple comparisons were carried out for each ratio to see whether it exhibits a stable profile across industries and over time. The findings showed that four out of the six ratios displayed no significant differences across industries, one (Current Assets Turnover) showed significant differences among all three sectors while the remaining ratio (Cash Flow to Total Assets) showed significant differences between two of the sectors. The test results also showed that all the financial ratios except for Cash Flow to Total Assets for all three industry sectors are stable over time. This finding is surprising in that the years 2008 and 2009 are periods where the financial crisis is at its height and companies’ financial data are expected to be adversely affected and where the means of the ratio values in these two years are expected to be volatile and unstable compared to the period before and after the financial crisis. Corporate Name : UNIRAZAK Library PDF Guest : Click to view PDF file

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