Supports on the free cash flow and agency cost theory from dividend announcements studies have been heavily discussed in the Western literature, but they have not been given much attention in the Asian countries, particulary in Malaysia. This paper focuses on examining the relationship of the...

Government-backed loan schemes have been introduced in manycountries to enable small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) to haveaccess to funding at a reasonable cost. This paper focuses on theoperation of the Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC) in Malaysia. Amodel to determine the utilisation of...