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The Determinants of Credit Risk in Malaysia

Norlida Abdul Manaba*, Ng Yen Thengb, Rohani Md-Rusc
a,b,c
Universiti Utara Malaysia,Sintok, Kedah Darul Aman, 06010, Malaysia

Abstract

The aims of this study are to investigate the determinants of credit risk and to examine the impact of earnings management on
credit risk prediction. The results showed that the liquidity ratio was significant in determining credit risk before and after earnings
management was adjusted. Meanwhile, the productivity ratio was significant in the unadjusted model, while the profitability ratio
was significant in the adjusted model. The overall percentage of correct prediction showed that the unadjusted model predicted
better than the adjusted model. This study provides knowledge about the effect of earning management on bankruptcy prediction.
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Keywords: Credit risk; earnings management; bankruptcy prediction; Malaysia

1. Introduction

Credit risk refers to the risk of an economic loss from the failure of counterparty to meet its contractual obligations
(Jorion, 2009) and nowadays, it is becoming very pervasive. Basel Committee (2001) has identified credit risk as the
dominant risk for banking sector. Credit risk is associated with the core business of banks, which involve loan lending
and deposit activities. Palubinskas and Stough (1999) found that bad loans, lack of banking skills, lack of regulation,
deposit insurance, mismanagement and corruption were the factors that caused bank failures. Meanwhile, Andrade
and Kaplan (1998) found that the primary cause of distress was firm’s high leverage while poor firm performance and
poor industry performance do not contributed much in explaining distress. They also found that operating and net cash
flow margins declined significantly after the firms fell into distress and rebound in the year before distress is resolved.
In addition, Andrade and Kaplan (1998) discovered that distressed firms will cause costly investment cuts and
depressed asset sales. The cost of financial distress is estimated to reach as high as 10-20 percent of the total firm

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value. A prior study done by Kaplan and Stein (1993) also found that high debt levels led to higher likelihood of
bankruptcy.
Opler and Titman (1994) explained that highly levered firms tend to lose substantial market share to their healthy
counterparties and experienced lower operating profits when the industry was undergoing downturn. They also
discovered that stock returns of highly levered firms were lower than their less levered competitors when the industry
is in distressed. Purnanandam (2008) highlighted three major costs resulted from financial distress. First, financially-
distressed firm may lost its customers, suppliers and key employees. Second, financially-distressed firm have higher
tendency to violate its debt covenants or failed to meet its obligations. Lastly, financially-distressed firm may need to
surrender their positive net present values (NPV) projects due to high external financing cost. From the above
discussion, it was obvious that market participants would need to pay a huge compensation for mishandling the credit
risk. Thus, it is imperative that a more sophisticated model be developed to measure and control for credit risk.
One of the mostly used and generally accepted methods in managing credit risk is the default prediction model
using financial ratios. Over the years, financial ratios have been applied and its accuracy has been proven to determine
financial status of a firm. It has also been used to predict financial distress or bankruptcy by market participants. Due
to its ease of application and understanding, it is still being used today by investors and analysts. However, since these
financial ratios rely heavily on accounting figures, there are several issues questioning its predictive power. According
to Basu (1997), accounting figures can affect a firm’s position due to the asymmetric practice of reporting such as
conservatism principles in recording the loss and gain of the firm. Leuz, Nanda and Wysocki (2003) conducted a study
on the systematic differences in earnings management using 31 countries. They highlighted that Malaysia, Hong Kong
and Singapore had the worst earning management compared to other common law countries (law system that formed
based on decisions in cases by judges). Besides, Cho, Fu and Yu (2012) deemed that the existence of earning
management using accounting figures and the changes in accounting principles have made the conventional Z-score
model failed to consider earning manipulations that may exist among firms. Therefore, based on their study, earnings
management adjustment should be made on the financial figures used in calculating bankruptcy tendency.
As an emerging country, credit risk management plays a crucial role to uphold the confidence of investors to invest
in Malaysia. According to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) (2008), a sound measurement of corporate sector soundness
may have an impact on the stability of financial system for a country. Based on BNM report, the bankruptcy cases in
Malaysia (including bankruptcy cases for public listed companies, private companies and individual) has increased to
2366 cases in July of 2013 (highest since 1998), which increased by 467 cases compared to 1899 cases in June of the
same year. In other words, the incremental of bankruptcy cases reflected that more and more companies fail to repay
their debt and continue their business. Thus, this phenomenon of increasing number of bankrupt firms should be taken
into account by all market players in order to derive a more sophisticated tool to predict the bankruptcy probability.
Therefore, a forward looking model that can predict the level of credit risk that leads to corporate failure can prevent
investors from making wrong judgment on their investment decisions and help the corporation to review its business
strategy. In addition, it can also help credit providers to mitigate and manage such threats. As a consequence, the credit
risk will be maintained at a secure level.
Thus, this study aims to investigate whether the accuracy rate in predicting financial distress using financial ratios
will increase after the adjustment is made on the earnings management portions. By adding the abnormal accrual as
one of the variable, this study helps in determining potential bias among accounting figures. Furthermore, the findings
are useful and it provide empirical evidence to credit providers, investors, corporations and even regulators about the
importance and the effect of earning management.

2. Literature Review

Credit is usually referred to borrowing and lending of money. Basically, it refers to a loan that is granted to a
borrower or a financial instrument (i.e. fixed coupon bond) that involves pre-determined fixed payments and is made
over a set time period. According to Anita (2008), credit risk is defined as the potential loss of valuable assets caused
by probable deterioration in the creditworthiness of counterparty or its inability to meet contractual obligations. It has
been identified as the dominant risk for banking firms as the core business of banks are loan lending and deposit
activities (Basel Committee, 2001). Furthermore, securities firms may face credit risk as well due to their involvement
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in derivatives market, borrowing or lending securities and making margin loans to customers. Thus, credit risk depends
on the ability of borrowers to generate sufficient cash flows through operation, earnings, or asset sales to meet their
future interest and principle payment of the outstanding debt.
Asquith, Gertner and Scharfstein (1994), showed that companies response to distress by doing bank debt
restructurings, public debt restructurings and asset sales. On average, financial distressed firms would need to sell 12
percent of their assets in order to implement their restructuring plans such as payoff senior private debt. Honohan
(1998) stressed that when a bank failed or distressed, losses will be incurred by depositors, government, other creditors
of banks and banks’ shareholders. Moreover, the distressed condition may leads to a contagious panic which may
cause bank runs and causing a domino effect in the banking industry. Beside, deposit freezing due to bank failure may
cost the banks more as they need to pay the depositors with interest. It is obvious that market participants would need
to pay a huge compensation for their mishandling of credit risk. Thus, it is crucial that a more sophisticated model be
developed to measure and control for credit risk.
Default prediction model has become one of the oldest and major tools that have been used to predict the probability
of default. Empirical studies on default prediction are dated back to 1960s, pioneered by Beaver and Altman (Hol,
Westgaard & Wijst, 2002). It started with a univariate discriminant analysis developed by Beaver in 1966 and is
expanded by Altman (1968) towards multivariate discriminant analysis (MDA) which is still being applied today
through the famous Z-score model.
Since then, researchers have attempted to develop other methods in predicting the probability of default. Instead of
the traditional discriminant analysis, the literature on default prediction has increased to encompass various method
of default prediction such as Cox proportional hazards model (Henebry, 1996), logit analysis (Ohlson, 1980; Barros,
Ferreira & Williams, 2007), neutral network (Tam and King, 2001) and option-pricing model (Charitou et al., 2013).
Altman and Saunders (1998) suggested that there were significant improvements in credit risk measurement literature
over the last 20 years. Based on past researches, Table 1 summarized the key financial indicators that have shown
significant relationship with financial failure or bankruptcy, which includes profitability ratio, leverage ratio,
productivity ratio and liquidity ratio.

Table 1. List of financial ratios used in previous study.

Significance of financial ratio(s) in determine financial distress or

Author(s) Year
bankruptcy.
Altman 1968 Profitability, productivity, liquidity, leverage and activity ratios.

1990 Profitability and efficiency ratios.

Keasey and McGuinness
2004 Interest coverage and leverage ratios.
Fons and Viswanathan
2011 Liquidity, profitability, leverage and cash flow ratios.
Thai and Abdollahi
2012 Liquidity, profitability and solvency ratios.
Tykvová and Borell
Cash flow to total debts ratio and total debts to total assets (liquidity ratio),
Yap, Munuswamy and
2012 retained earnings to total assets (profitability ratio) and cash to current
Zulkifflee Mohamed
liabilities (solvency ratio).
Earnings before interest and tax to total assets (profitability ratio), net profit
to total asset (activity ratio), total liabilities to total assets (debt ratio),
Korol 2013
working capital to total assets (liquidity ratio) and total revenues from sales
to total assets (activity ratio).

Financial reporting plays a crucial role in providing information that is useful to present and potential investors
and creditors to help them to make decision on investments, credits and trading activities (Spiceland, Sepe &
Tomassini, 2007). There are many accounting professions that prepare guidelines or known as accounting standard to
assure the quality of accounting report. For example, the Malaysian Accounting Standard Board (MASB) was
established to develop and issue accounting and reporting standards within the country in order to promote high quality
accounting and reporting standards that is consistent with international standards (MASB, 2013). However, even
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though there are series of guidelines that help in standardizing and guiding the practices of accounting reports, the
possibility of accounting distortions, especially the earning management behavior still exist (Roychowdhury, 2006;
Yang, 2013).
Jackson and Pitman (2001) defined earnings management as the manipulation of accounting numbers within the
limit and scope of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Studies have been conducted to determine
the factors that contribute to corporate failure and accounting fraud was found as one of the factors. According to Yap
et al. (2012), if a collapse of a firm cannot be detected earlier, this may due to the firm did not disclose true and
adequate information about their financial condition. Besides, this also reflects that the accounting standards and other
regulations or legal requirement may not be enough to ensure fair and transparent disclosure. Meanwhile, Shen,
Huang, Hassan and Iftekhar (2012) found that the effect of financial ratios on credit ratings is significantly affected
by the level of information asymmetries. They also suggested that for banks to improve the credit rating, the
information asymmetry in the country should be reduced.
Thus, corrective actions should be taken to adjust the company information biases in order to prevent poor decision
making and improve company performance. As a result, the objective of this study is to determine whether the
accuracy of predicting financial distress would be increased if earnings management portions are adjusted particularly
in the emerging market as previous studies (such as in Cho et al., 2012) were focusing on developing market.

3. Method

The sample comprises of distressed and non-distressed companies listed in Bursa Malaysia. The list of financially-
distressed companies was obtained from the PN 17 list from Bursa Malaysia. It was then paired with healthy
companies based on its industry and size. As of 9th September 2013, there were 26 firms listed in the PN 17 list. The
financial data was collected from the Thomson Reuters DataStream. The study was conducted to cover the period
from 2006 to 2012. The final sample consists of 30 companies, which is made of 15 financially-distressed firms and
15 healthy companies from four sectors. The sectors are trading and services (10 companies), industrial products (12
companies), consumer products (4 companies) and construction (4 companies).
Four financial ratios were selected as the independent variables. The ratios were liquidity ratio (working capital /
total assets), productivity ratio (retained earnings / total assets), profitability ratio (earnings before interest and taxes /
total assets) and leverage ratio (book value equity / total liabilities. The model before the earnings management
adjustment was constructed as in (1):

ࢁ࢔ࢇࢊ࢐࢛࢙࢚ࢋࢊ ൌ ࣅ૙ ൅ ࣅ૚ ࢞૚ ൅ ࣅ૛ ࢞૛ ൅ ࣅ૜ ࢞૜ ൅ ࣅ૝ ࢞૝ (1)
Where:
࢞૚ = Liquidity ratio
࢞૛ = Profitability ratio
࢞૜ = Productivity ratio
࢞૝ = Leverage ratio

Since this study aims to examine the effect of earning management in financially-distressed companies, firstly,
the model has to be adjusted. Following Cho et al. (2012), earnings management is adjusted as shown in (2):

Adjusted = λₒ + λ1 [(Working capital – EM) / (Total asset – EM)] +

λ2 [(Retained earnings – EM) / (Total asset – EM)] +
λ3 [(Earnings before interest and taxes – EM) / (Total asset – EM)] +
λ4 [Equity / (Total liabilities – EM)] (2)
Where:
EM = earnings management

In order to calculate the earnings management, the total accruals have to be determined. Normally, researchers
used the discretionary accrual to study the effect of accounting changes to bankruptcy prediction (Kothari, Leone &
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Wasley, 2005; Cho et al., 2012). They estimated the amount of earning that deviated from the expected figure by
assuming that it is subjected to accounting manipulation. Three steps were used in the calculations.

The total accruals before adjustment are calculated as in (3):

ࢀ࡭࢏࢚ ൌ ࡱ࡮ࢄࡵ࢏࢚ െ ࡯ࡲࡻ࢏࢚ (3)
Where:
ࢀ࡭࢏࢚ = total accruals for firm i in year t
ࡱ࡮ࢄࡵ࢏࢚ = earnings before extraordinary items for firm i in year t
࡯ࡲࡻ࢏࢚ = cash flow from operations for firm i in year t

Next, after calculating total accruals for each firm in every industry and year, it will be regressed to determine the
value of total accruals by year and industry as in (4):

ࢀ࡭࢏࢚ ൌ ࢼ૙ ൅ ࢼ૚ ሺοࡿࢇ࢒ࢋ࢙࢏࢚ െ ο࡭ࡾ࢏࢚ ሻ ൅ ࢼ૛ ࡼࡼࡱ࢏࢚ ൅ ࢿ࢏࢚ (4)

Where:
οࡿࢇ࢒ࢋ࢙࢏࢚ = change in sales revenue for firm i in year t
ο࡭ࡾ࢏࢚ = change in account receivables for firm i in year t
ࡼࡼࡱ࢏࢚ = plant and equipment for firm i in year t

Finally, the betas derived from the regression analysis as in Equation (4) (classified by year and industry) were
replaced in order to determine the abnormal accruals or earning management (EM) portions, as shown in (5):
ࡱࡹ࢏࢚ ൌ ࢀ࡭࢏࢚ െ ሾࢼ૙ ൅ ࢼ૚ ሺοࡿࢇ࢒ࢋ࢙࢏࢚ െ ο࡭ࡾ࢏࢚ ሻ ൅ ࢼ૛ ࡼࡼࡱ࢏࢚ ሿ (5)
where the ࢼ values are the parameters estimates from Equation (4).

The logistic regression analysis was conducted by using both the unadjusted (Model 1) and adjusted model (Model
2). Logistic regression was suitable to describe and to test the relationship between a categorical outcome variable
and one or more categorical of predictor variables (Peng, Lee & Ingersoll, 2002). This method has also been applied
by other researchers to determine model accuracy in predicting firm failure or bankruptcy (Ohlson, 1980; Cho et al.,
2012).

4. Analysis of results and discussion

4.1 Descriptive analysis

The descriptive analysis was utilized to describe the main features of data used in this study. Measurements that
have been used to obtain the descriptive statistics include mean, median and standard deviation. This study aims to
determine the most appropriate model to predict financial distress among Malaysian public listed firms. Thus, the
descriptive statistics for both unadjusted and adjusted models were calculated to describe the variability and
dispersion, before and after the adjustments. The results for descriptive statistics are shown in Table 2.

Table 2. Descriptive statistics

Statistics Unadjusted Adjusted

Mean 3.8464 3.5732
Median 3.4795 3.5409
Std. Deviation 4.5342 5.1507

Table 2 shows that the mean values differ for both models. The mean value of unadjusted model was slightly higher
than the adjusted model. The differences of 0.2732 suggested a downward trend in predicting financial distress using
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both unadjusted and adjusted models. Accordingly, subsequent to the adjustment, the risk of distress increases. This
increment reflects a higher probability of being classified as financially-distressed firm. Alternatively, it could also be
said that earnings management has a biased effect on financial distress prediction and using an unadjusted model as a
proxy will reduce distress risk. However, the standard deviation is higher for the adjusted model which indicates that
the percentage of misclassification for bankruptcy is higher using the adjusted model.

4.2 Logistic regression

This study seeks to analyse the determinants of bankruptcy and to determine whether there is an improvement in
the accuracy rate of distress prediction after the earnings management adjustment. These objectives are attained by
using logit regression and its results are shown in Table 3.

Table 3. Logit regression for the unadjusted and the adjusted model

Unadjusted Adjusted
Variables
B Sig. B Sig.
X1 -5.979 .001** -4.710 .002**
X2 3.152 .046* 1.023 .336
X3 -7.930 .116 6.924 .044*
X4 -.222 .622 -.717 .160
Constant .985 .053 1.349 .011
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

Table 3 shows that liquidity was an important determinant of bankruptcy in both models (before and after
adjustment for earnings management) where it was significant at 1% level. Another important variable in the
unadjusted model is was the profitability ratio. It was measured by retained earnings/total assets, and it was significant
at 5% level. Productivity ratio was significant at 5% level in the adjusted model, but was insignificant in the unadjusted
model. The results for liquidity ratio corresponds to previous studies, that working capital to total assets ratio (liquidity
ratio) was one of the significant factor to determine firm failure or bankruptcy (Thai and Abdollahi, 2011; Tykvová
and Borell, 2012; Korol, 2013).
The results indicated that working capital to total assets (X1) was negatively related to probability of distress. This
result was similar to previous study where it suggested that a highly-liquid company had a lower probability of distress.
However, the profitability ratio was positively related to probability of distress. This result contradicted with
expectation since it reflected that firms with higher profit were prone to bankruptcy. Similar pattern was perceived for
productivity ratio, it was negatively-related to financial distress under the adjusted model. The result also indicated
that leverage was not a determinant of distress. The coefficient from the unadjusted model seemed to correspond to
the expectation while the coefficient from the adjusted model, especially the productivity ratio was distorted.
Next, the accuracy rate for both models was examined. The results were compared and were displayed in Table 4.
The results in Table 4 depicted that the percentage of correct classification for distressed firms was 76.7 percent using
both models. In addition, the results suggested that the type 1 error for both models; which was an error in
misclassifying distressed firm as non-distressed, is 23.3 percent. Similar result was also obtained by using adjusted
model. This implied that both models had the same accuracy rate in predicting distressed firm. The correct
classification percentage for distressed firm in this study was considered high, since Cho et al. (2012) obtained around
43 percent to 53 percent for correct classification percentage in their study.
On the other hand, under the Type II error (misclassifying the non-distressed firm as distressed firm), the
unadjusted model performed better (16.7 percent) than the adjusted model (26.7 percent). This might be due to the
accrual based method which was used in this study to calculate earnings management portion. According to Kothari
et al. (2005), using accrual based method for calculation of abnormal accruals can decrease the Type I error. However,
at the same time, the Type II error might increase. Thus, the Type II error for adjusted model was higher.
Koh (1991) stated that Type I error was more costly as misclassifying distressed firm might cause losses in business
volume, losses in firm’s reputation and potential lawsuits. Wahlen, Stickney and Baginski (2011) also stressed that
Type I error was more costly than a Type II error as investor might lost the full amount they invested while Type II
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error might cost investors in term of opportunity cost for their investment. The results showed that both models had
similar type I error while the unadjusted model had a lower type II error. Nevertheless, the overall results showed that
the unadjusted model had a higher accuracy rate compared to the adjusted model, and therefore it suggested that the
unadjusted model was better and appropriate in predicting financial distress in Malaysian market.
Table 4. Accuracy rate for adjusted and unadjusted model

Classification Table

Unadjusted Adjusted

Predicted Predicted
Observed
Distressed or non-distressed Distressed or non-distressed
Correct Correct
Distresse (%) (%)
Non-distressed Total Non-distressed Distressed Total
d
Non-
25 5 30 83.3 22 8 30 73.3
distressed
Distressed 7 23 30 76.7 7 23 30 76.7
Overall percentage 80 Overall percentage 75

This result contradicted with the results from Cho et al. (2012) where they found that the bankruptcy prediction
model had improved its prediction power after the earnings management is adjusted. The reason might be due to the
scope of study where Cho et al. (2012) focused on developing countries, while this study focused on the emerging
market, particularly Malaysia. However, the study about the impact of earnings management on the bankruptcy
prediction is still considered rare in the literature.

5. Conclusion

The escalating bankruptcy cases in Malaysia have also urged the development of a more sophisticated model in
managing credit risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether earnings management adjustments could
improve the accuracy rate for financial distress prediction using financial ratios. The first part of the analysis looked
at the determinants of bankruptcy under the unadjusted model and the adjusted model by considering earnings
management. For the unadjusted model, liquidity ratio and profitability ratio were significant while for the adjusted
model, liquidity ratio and productivity ratio were significant. The second part of the logistic regression explained the
percentage of correct classification for distressed and non-distressed firms. Both models had similar accuracy rate in
predicting distressed firm, under Type I error. On the other hand, for Type II error, the unadjusted model performed
better than the adjusted model. This phenomenon might be caused by the accrual based method used to calculate
earnings management portion. The adjustment for earnings management portions failed to increase the accuracy rate
in predicting financial distress firms among publicly listed firms in Malaysia. Therefore, investors and other market
players that participate in Malaysian market may apply the unadjusted model to predict firm failure. This could make
their credit risk management more efficient and improve their decision making process. As a consequence, their credit
risk exposure will be reduced and profit gain might be enhanced.

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