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Malaysian companies have indirectly give impact to the environmental issues due to their business activities especially environmentally sensitive companies. This study aims to examine the level of environmental reporting practices and the factors that determine the environmental reporting practice among environmentally sensitive companies in Malaysia. There are four variables that may determine Malaysian companies to provide environmental reporting which included company size, profitabilit...

The issues of brain drain among Malaysians is currently very salient as there is a consistent increase on the number of emigration of highly-skilled and professional individuals. Brain drain among these individuals will consequently affect the home country in many aspect including social, economic and political. Therefore, it is important to understand the drivers that cause these individuals to migrate and work abroad. The main objective of this study is to investigate the possible determ...

In today's business environment, human capital become one of the most important resource for the company. This study focuses on the relationship between human capital investment and company performance among Company Secretarrial Firms in Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Four independent variables in human capital investment (training,education, knowledge and skills) were derived from literature review and supported by Human Capital Theory and Resource Based View Theory. Basically,...

Enterprise Risk Management has been receiving lots of attention from the company as well as various groups of potential stakeholders recently. Most of the Public Listed Companies in Malaysia had acknowledged the importance of Enterprise Risk Management in creating values to the company. This is because Enterprise Risk Management had provided framework which can be adopted by the company in analyzing and mitigating the potential risks that they might encounter in the future. The company was...

Determining the optimal capital structure is one of the foremost popular issues in corporate finance and it is one of the most important financing decisions that need to be made by financial managers. A wrong financing decision could affect the performance of the company as well as diminishing the shareholder’s return thus can lead to bankruptcy. Therefore, it is the responsibility of financial managers to ensure that conscious steps must be taken in order to avoid making wrong financing d...