The factor affected on borrowing cost policy and the impact of accounting policy on profitability ratios : evidence from the stock exchange of Thailand
Abstract:
The main objective of this study is to explore what influence and motivate managements to employ borrowing cost policy. Types of industry and size of organizations are focused in this study. Furthermore, analyzing the affects and consequences derived from the accounting choice toward Return on Equity Ratio (ROE) and Return on Assets Ration (ROA). By using a collection of data set disclosed in Financial Statement and Footnote during 2002-2004 from 12 sectors of industry, with the total of 225 registered companies listed in The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). All data has been analyzed and tested by descriptive statistics theory, together with Chi-Squeare Test to analyze the differences, and T-Test at significant of 0.05From the study, were found that types of industry and size organization have significant influence in selecting borrowing cost policy. As the result, we have found that Capitalization on interest does not have a great impact on profitability ratio on statistical term. However, we found that some of these companies did not the capitalization of interest costs in their financial statements in which it clearly shows that they did not follow the regulations of accounting standard.