Corporate Tax Avoidance of Malaysian Public Listed Companies: A Multi-Measure Analysis

Externalities of Corporate Tax Avoidance

We show that when a meaningful proportion of firms in an economy engage in tax avoidance strategies, the covariance between a firm’s cash flow and the market cash flows increases, thereby increasing a firm’s cost of capital. This negative externality is imposed on all firms in the economy, not just tax-avoiding firms. The negative externality results regardless of the level of uncertainty assoc...

A Review of Enterprise Risk Management Practices among Malaysian Public Listed Companies

The risk sphere in business is fast changing and expanding. Almost anything has become a risk factor that will have potent, direct, and far reaching impacts on business. This paper examines the intensity of enterprise risk management (ERM) practices among the Malaysian public listed companies. The paper espouses a ERM framework comprising fourteen important implementation elements and processes...

The Ranking of Effective Factors on Corporate Tax Avoidance

The Hierarchy of Effective Factors on Corporate Tax Avoidance Because of the information asymmetry within taxpayers and governments, commonly, the taxpayers try avoid the payment of tax. The problem can be explained by Agency theory. On the other hand, governmants try to maximize receiving tax by recognizing risky taxpayers and researchers try to recognize effective factors on tax avoidance. Th...

Tax Avoidance , Corporate Transparency , and Firm Value

Diversification and Corporate Performance: Evidence from China’s Listed Energy Companies

Recently, China’s energy industry has been continuously depressed due to a slowdown in its economic development. China’s energy companies have made considerable efforts to promote their corporate performance to mitigate this performance decline and to ensure the sustainable development of China’s energy industry, macro economy, society and environment. In this paper, the effects of two business...