Abstract: This study aims to examine the effect of financial literacy, profitability, and size of SME's on capital structure decisions with financial inclusion as a moderating variable. The type of this research was explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The object of this research was SME's in Bengkalis Subdistrict and the population of this research were 1.158 SME's. Using purposive sampling techniques, the samples obtained for this study were 82 SME's in Bengkalis Subdistrict. The data analysis method used was SmartPLS 3.0. The results of this study indicated that the variables of financial literacy, profitability, and size of SME's partially had a significant effect on capital structure.....
Keywords: Financial literacy, profitability, size of SME's, Capital Structure, SME's
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