DocumentCode
561746
Title
Investment information via website by Malaysian listed companies
Author
Abdullah, Azrul ; Isa, Rosiatimah Mohd ; Isa, Norshamshina Mat
Author_Institution
Accounting Res. Inst., UiTM, Arau, Malaysia
fYear
2011
fDate
5-6 Dec. 2011
Firstpage
722
Lastpage
727
Abstract
Internet technology is believed to improve efficiency and good practice of information dissemination. This paper examined the investment information disclosed by Malaysian Listed Companies via their websites. Evaluations of investment informations disclosure via the websites were based on score towards the disclosure index developed. One hundred companies listed on the Bursa Malaysia´s Mainboard are selected based on their market capitalization. This study identifies the level of investment information disclosure across industry and found that the investment information disclosure and usage of the multimedia are still unsatisfactory. This study also tests the extent of such disclosure with several firm characteristics (profitability, auditor, efficiency and size) and the result shows that only firm´s size is significant. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Keywords
Internet; Web sites; information dissemination; investment; Bursa Malaysia Mainboard; Internet technology; Malaysian listed companies; Website; auditor; disclosure index; efficiency; firm size; information dissemination; investment information disclosure evaluation; market capitalization; multimedia; profitability; Companies; Industries; Internet; Investments; Manufacturing; Web sites; Investment disclosure; Malaysia;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2011 IEEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
Penang
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0021-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CHUSER.2011.6163830
Filename
6163830
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