The Relationship of RHB Bank Berhad’s Profitability with Leverage and Size (Total Asset)

Sofi, Farah Nuramalina (2017): The Relationship of RHB Bank Berhad’s Profitability with Leverage and Size (Total Asset).

Abstract

This paper aims to recognize the relationship between profitability and performance of RHB Bank Berhad. RHB bank is one of the local bank in Malaysia and the bank was well known in local country. Therefore, knowing the action taken by the management to increase the profitability and the performance of RHB Bank. The focused of this study is leverage and internal factors that are size by indicate the performance and the profitability measurement of the company, such as ROA, ROE, and etc. Aside from the profitability of the bank, size of the company is also considered to have the relationship with performance. Size and leverage are significant in business due to the direct and indirect relationship to profitability, therefore, this paper is to examine if the management have taken an appropriate decision making to increase their asset that will be reflected to the profitability and growth trend of the company.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Keyword: banks’s performance; leverage; Size
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G17 - Financial Forecasting and Simulation

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