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Agency costs of debt and monitoring


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Mustapha, Mazlina and Che Ahmad, Ayoib (2011) Agency costs of debt and monitoring. International Review of Business Research Papers, 7 (4). pp. 118-129. ISSN 1837-5685; ESSN: 1832-9543

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the debt structure of an organisation affects its demand and preference for monitoring costs in Malaysian business environment. Data is collected using primary and secondary sources. Multiple regression analysis is used. The findings indicate that debt structure have negative significant relationship with total monitoring costs. However the debt structure is not significant when the cost of directorship and auditing are compared. But when internal auditing and external auditing costs are compared, the result indicates that companies with high debt structure have significantly more external auditing costs. This result is consistent with prior studies and supports the notion that highly geared companies demand more external audit as the banks need the independent third party to verify the figures in the financial statements prepared by the management.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
Publisher: World Business Institute
Keywords: Corporate governance; Accountability
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 26 Jun 2015 07:24
Last Modified: 16 Oct 2015 06:59
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22804
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