Financial performance of mergers and acquisitions of selected bank in Malaysia / Nora Mohd Yasin

• Main Author: Mohd Yasin, Nora
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/103942/1/103942.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/103942/

This study is to evaluate the financial performance of two banks that involved in mergers and acquisitions of selected bank in Malaysia which are Bumiputra Commerce Berhad and Southern Bank Berhad into CIMB bank. This mergers and acquisitions occur on 2006. This study focuses on six variables that are gross profit margin, spread analysis, capital adequacy ratio, return on capital employed, returned on equity and debt to equity ratio used as a independent variable. This entire variable used to compare the financial performance for each during pre and post mergers and acquisitions. The year of merger will be excluded in this study which is year of 2006. The pre mergers period is year of 2000 to 2005 while the year of post mergers is 2007 to 2012. This study used software of Statistical Package Social Sciences ( SPSS ) to analyze the relationship all the variable between the pre and post mergers and acquisitions. The result from regression analysis shows that during post merger and acquisition have an increased their financial performance of the bank.