Role of Business Age, Scale & Risk in Debt Financing Choices for the Pakistani Textile & Apparel Industry

Bashir Zahid (), Arshad Muhammad Usman (), Asif Muhammad (), Abbas Muhammad () and Ali Hasnain ()
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Bashir Zahid: Lecturer at Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Arshad Muhammad Usman: Lecturer at Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Asif Muhammad: Lecturer at Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Abbas Muhammad: Student BS A&F, Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Ali Hasnain: Student BS A&F, Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat, Pakistan

Financial Internet Quarterly (formerly e-Finanse), 2020, vol. 16, issue 3, 119-136

Abstract: The motivation for this research enquiry is to identify the role of the business age, size and risk for the choice of debt financing in the textile and apparel sector of Pakistan along with other controlled factors. The textile and apparel sector of Pakistan comprises 464 listed entities as the targeted population while the study randomly finalized 60 firms as the sample after carefully analyzing the required information from the financial statements during the annual revenue streams of 2013-2019. The predicted variable for this research enquiry is measured by short, long and total-debt ratios while the predictor variables include the business age, firm’s scale and risk. In addition, the research includes tax shield, tangibility, liquidity, profitability, and growth as the controlling factors. The study estimated that the choice of total-debt ratio is strongly affected by business age, size and risk along-with tax shield, tangibility, liquidity and profitability while the choice of short-term debt ratio mainly depends upon the firm’s scale and age along with the tax shield. In addition, the choice of long-term debt ratio is strongly explained by the firm’s scale and age along with the tax shield, liquidity and profitability. The estimated evidence provides management with the implications for the textile and apparel sector of Pakistan to consider as significant factors in deciding the debt financing choice of this sector. The estimated evidence of this research enquiry applies to the non-financial textile sector only and cannot be generalized to the financial sector. Future research may enhance the financing choice towards the inclusion of equity financing with the same set of variables.

Keywords: Debt Financing Choice; Business age; Firm’s scale; Risk; Textile industry; Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B23 B26 B41 C23 C58 G11 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/fiqf-2020-0022

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