PERFORMANCE OF CORPORATE CAPITAL STRUCTURE APPROACH

Dr Ravikumar K

Abstract


This study is to investigate the effect which capital structure has had on corporate performance using a panel data sample representing of Indian companies.   The results showed that a firm’s capital structure had a significantly negative impact on the firm’s performance measures, in both the accounting and market’s measures. We also found that the short-term debt to total assets (STDTA) level has a significantly positive effect on the market performance measure   Indian corporate performance negative impact on corporate performance.

 


Keywords


corporate performance and failure, capital structure

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