dc.description.abstract | Capital structure decisions is a financial decisions relating to the
composition of debt to equity that must be used by the company. Each company
managers must be able to gather and manages internal and external funds
efficiently in order to preserved continuity of operations. This research aimed to
analyzing the factors that affect the capital structure decisions in the sub sector of
coal mining and a non coal mining companies. Factors examined include cost of
debt, business risk, firm size, growth, dividend policy, and profitability. In
addition, this research also aimed to assess the differences influence of those
factors to the capital structure decision in the sub sector of coal mining and non
coal mining companies.
This research uses secondary data from company financial statements
during the period 2008-2012 were obtained from the official website of the
Indonesia Stock Exchange (www.idx.co.id) and the Indonesian Capital Market
Directory. Based on census method, 17 companies on sub sector of coal mining
and 14 companies on sub sector of non coal mining were included in the research.
This research applied multiple linear regression analysis and Chow test. | en_US |