Financial Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Online published on 4 March, 2015.
Using floating debt rate is common for short-term and the advantage of floating debt rate is that there is a chance to benefit from reduction in interest rate. The present study examines the determinants of floating rate debt ratio. Different factors may affect firm's decision on fixed floating debt mix. The primary focus of the majority of previous fixed/floating choice of debt studies was referred to the factors such as firm size, credit worthiness of firms, cash rate, leverage and the usage of interest rate swap as a measure of derivative. this paper test the correlation of factors that affect on floating rate with pearson and wilcoxon test.
Floating debt ratio, pearson, wilcoxon, Short term debt, correlation, interest rate swap