• Mohd Rashdan Sallehuddin
• Rubadhasrishini A/P Chelliah
• Nor Azrin Mohamad Rosli

This study of cash holdings in public listed companies for trading/service sector in Malaysia play important role in break through the breach between developed countries and developing countries such as Malaysia. The discoveries of this study will mirror the genuine ramifications of cash holdings particularly among the Malaysian trading/services sector. Since the research of cash holdings can be said to be still new in nearby research, so, this study will fill in as pioneer by giving an early versions of skill and proper research framework to whatever is left of the researchers locally. Moreover, this research is to make propositional statement and propose a framework to be tested empirically in future studies. Based on Trade-off Theory (TOT), we proposed that there will be positive relationship among firm size, cash flow volatility and capital expenditure which in turn will positively predict corporate cash holding. This variables used are closely related to trade-off theory and contribute the most to the reasons of firms to hold so much cash. This study embark in the contribution of making the government exertion in changing Malaysia economy into a more focused and esteem based economy. Considerable corporate cash holdings in companies will empower persistent innovative work that fill in as a spine of value way of life and business intensity. This can be acknowledged if policy makers set a specific necessity for the sector as far as their exploration and improvements subsidizing in enhancing their business proficiency in term of probability and asset management.

corporate cash holding, trade-off theory, firm size, capital expenditure, trading and service, Bursa Malaysia.

"The Conceptual Paper on Corporate Cash Holdings on Public-Listed Companies among Trading/Services Sector in Bursa Malaysia", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.932-937, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N30.pdf

"The Conceptual Paper on Corporate Cash Holdings on Public-Listed Companies among Trading/Services Sector in Bursa Malaysia", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp932-937, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N30.pdf