Are working capital decisions truly short-term in nature?

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 238-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav Singh Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-275
Author(s):  
Sung Suk Kim ◽  
Jacob Donald Tan ◽  
Rita Juliana ◽  
John Tampil Purba

This study aims to explore the financial management practices ofsmall-and-medium-enterprises (SMEs) in the Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek). We investigate into 3 SME cases by conducting the semi-structured interviews with the owner-managers and using direct observations to know the practices of financial management of SMEs. Through the research, we have found six propositions related to the practice of short-term financial management. They apply bootstraps to ensure availability of working capital. They set aside cash reserves from retained earnings and minimize loans from financial institutions. They have the computerized system to track receivables facilitating working capital needs. They keep theirinventory control efficient to manage working capital. They screen customers using transactional records and reputations to minimize the risk of bad debts.


2021 ◽  
pp. 164-168
Author(s):  
Sruthi B ◽  
Rashmi R

Working capital management is important for every organization as it refers to the effective management of current assets and current liabilities. The aim is to make sure that the firm is capable to continue its operations and it has sufficient cash flow to satisfy both maturing short-term debt and upcoming operational expenses. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the management of working capital in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, a leading public sector enterprise in India over a period of 10 years (That is from 2009-10 to 2018-19). The paper also attempts to study the components of working capital and analyze the relationship between liquidity and profitability of HPCL. The study is based on secondary data collected from annual report of HPCL for the past 10 years, Pearson correlation and regression model are used for this purpose. From the study it is found that there is a significant relationship between liquidity and profitability.


VJ Engineers is one of the popular organizations in Chennai. Seeing the good opportunity to study financial systems and practices of VJ Engineers, it is relatively important to take up assignment on ‘WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT IN VJ ENGINEERS’. During the project work, it is being analyzed the working capital position of this organization. [1],[ 3],[5] Decisions relating to working capital and short term financing are referred to as working capital management. These involve managing the relationship between a firm's short-term assets and its short-term liabilities. The goal of Working capital management is to ensure that the firm is able to continue its operations and that it has sufficient money flow to satisfy both maturing short-term debt and upcoming operational expenses.The study of working capital management is very helpful for the organisation to know its liquidity position. The study is relevant to the organization to know the day to day expenditure. This study is relevant to give an idea to utilise the current assets.This study is also relevant to the student as they can use it as a reference. This report will help in conducting further research. Other researcher can use this project as secondary data uncovering of PDA incorporation in effects on police reports.


2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092096137
Author(s):  
Nufazil Altaf

This article examines the relationship between working capital financing and firm performance for a sample of 185 Indian hospitality firms. In addition, this study examines the impact of financial flexibility on working capital financing performance relationship for a period of 10 years. This study employs two-step generalized method of moment (GMM) techniques to arrive at results. Results of the study confirm the inverted U-shaped relationship between working capital financing and firm performance with optimal break-even point, beyond which short-term debt financing has a negative effect on performance at 0.54. In addition, we found that firms likely to be more financially flexible can finance a greater proportion of working capital using short-term debt, since break-even point turns out to be high for firms likely to be more financially flexible. The study is expected to extend the existing debate on working capital management by using the sample of Indian Hospitality firms for analysing the above-mentioned relationships.


2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajaya Kumar Panda ◽  
Swagatika Nanda

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence about the relationship between working capital financing (WCF) and firm profitability in six key manufacturing sectors of Indian Economy. It also aims to capture the change in the financing of working capital requirement over different scenarios of price-cost margin and financial flexibility. Design/methodology/approach The study is undertaken on a sample of 1,211 firms from 6 key manufacturing sectors of Indian economy from 2000 to 2016. The non-linear relationship between WCF and profitability is studied using two-step generalized model of moments (GMM) estimator. Findings The study finds a convex relationship between WCF and profitability among firms in chemical, construction, and consumer goods sectors. Firms in these sectors can finance larger portion of their working capital requirements through short-term debt without negatively impacting profitability. However, a concave pattern of relationship for firms in machinery, metal, and textile industries implies increasing debt financing of working capital requirement would increase profitability for the firms who have financed lower portion of their working capital by short-term bank borrowing. But when a higher proportion of working capital requirements are already financed by short-term debt, a further increase in debt financing may impact profitability negatively. Moreover, the study finds that firms with high financial flexibility and high price-cost margin (except textile) can increase profitability by financing larger portion of working capital requirement through short-term debts and the continuation with risky WCF could increase profitability. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature on working capital in a number of ways. First, no previous study has been undertaken to explore the non-linear relationship between WCF and corporate profitability over a large sample of firms from six key manufacturing sectors of Indian economy. Second, the study uses a quadratic function to explore the non-linear relationship between WCF and profitability. Third, the study explores the relationship between WCF and profitability with respect to the price-cost margin and financial flexibility of firms under different manufacturing sectors of Indian economy. Finally, the study uses advanced two-step GMM, the panel data techniques to handle unobservable heterogeneity and issues of endogeneity within the data sample.


2016 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek Ibrahim Eldomiaty ◽  
Mohamed Hashem Rashwan ◽  
Mohamed Bahaa El Din ◽  
Waleed Tayel

Purpose: The objective of this study is to examine the relative contribution of firm-level, industry-level and country level variables to working capital at risk. Working capital at risk is treated as the value at risk for a portfolio of firm’s current assets. As far as short-term liquidity is concerned, working capital at risk, being the maximum amount that a firm may lose at a certain confidence interval, must be the most important part that a firm’s management must focus on. Design/methodology/approach: This study empirically examines the possible associations between wide range of variables and working capital at risk. The sample firms include 143 non-financial firms listed in Egypt stock exchange. The data cover the years 2000–2014. The statistical tests include the fixed and random effects, testing for linearity versus nonlinearity. The least squares dummy variables and discriminant analysis are utilized. The working capital at risk is classified into three levels: low, medium and high. Findings: The general findings of the study show that cash conversion cycle and the leverage are the most significant determinants of working capital at risk. Both determinants have significant influence on the level of volatility of working capital throughout the three categories of working capital at risk. Originality/value: This study offers a new approach that deals with working capital as a portfolio, rather than single ratios, that firm’s management must decrease its volatility (value at risk), therefore, short-term liquidity can be improved significantly. This approach can be considered a financial engineering in terms of monitoring and managing short-term liquidity exposure.


Ciencia Unemi ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanita García Aguilar ◽  
Sandra Galarza Torres ◽  
Aníbal Altamirano Salazar

En este trabajo se analiza la importancia de una eficiente administración del capital de trabajo, como estrategia para lograr la operatividad de las Pymes y su permanencia en el tiempo. El capital de trabajo es el efectivo mínimo que toda empresa necesita para ejecutar con normalidad sus actividades operativas. Una gestión adecuada del mismo, permite contar con liquidez necesaria para cubrir las obligaciones de corto plazo, como resultado de la eficiente aplicación del ciclo de conversión del efectivo. Para esto, se aplicó una metodología de análisis documental tomando como referencia fuentes secundarias de investigación, tales como libros y artículos científicos. A partir de lo anterior, se analizó los fundamentos teóricos del capital de trabajo, sus métodos de cálculo y una revisión de investigaciones sobre la administración del capital de trabajo en Pymes latinoamericanas. Como resultado se determinó que el capital de trabajo es una herramienta financiera a la que todo administrador debe prestarle atención y dedicarle tiempo, debido a que determina la supervivencia de una empresa durante los primeros años de su existencia. Por otro lado, existen algunos métodos de cálculo para estimar el capital de trabajo, cada uno tiene sus características esenciales y su aplicación, dependen de la actividad a la que se dedique la entidad. ABSTRACTThis paper aims to analyze the importance of an efficient administration of working capital, as a strategy to achieve the operation of SMEs and their permanence in time. Working capital is the minimum cash that every company needs to execute its operating activities normally. Proper management of the asset enables to have the necessary liquidity to cover short-term obligations, as a result of the efficient application of the cash conversion cycle. For this, a methodology of documentary analysis was applied taking as reference secondary research sources, such as books and scientific papers. Based on the above, the theoretical foundations of working capital, their methods of calculation and a review of research on the management of working capital in Latin American SMEs were analyzed. As a result, it was determined that working capital is a financial tool that every manager must pay attention and spend time, because it determines the survival of a company in the early years of its existence. On the other hand, there are some calculation methods to estimate working capital, each has its essential characteristics and its application depends on the activity to which the organization is committed.


Author(s):  
S. Serdar Karaca ◽  
Derya Ağcadağ ◽  
Müge Sağlam ◽  
Eray Baysa

In this study we analyzed the effect of 2008 financial crisis on firm performance. With this aim we used manufacturing sector in Turkey. In our study we used 119 firms traded on Borsa Istanbul and quarterly data belong to 2004-2012 period. In this study we examined the period before and after 2008 crisis. We applied one sample kolmagorov-smirnov test to know whether the data has normal distribution. Also we used T-Test Analysis to compare average of the data. At the result of analysis financial ratios that accounts receivable turnover, liquidity, net working capital, short term debt / Total Debt, Financial Leverage Ratio, founded different in before and after year 2008, according to year 2008.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Laurens D. Lumantow ◽  
Dolina L. Tampi ◽  
Joula J. Rogahang

This research aims to analyze and find out how working capital adequacy ratio. This research was conducted at the PT. Bank BNI Tbk. The methods used in this research is descriptive quantitative and analytical tools used are Working capital adequacy Ratio which consists of three types of ratios i.e. ratio of Total Assets to capital The work is clean, current liabilities against the Net working capital and working capital Turnover. The data used are secondary data from the financial statements of PT Bank BNI Tbk. Results of the study explained that the calculation of the ratio of Total Assets Against Net working capital in the year 2015 to 2017. And the results of calculation of the ratio of current liabilities against the Net working capital in the year 2015 to 2017. And the results of the calculation of working capital Turnover Ratio by the year 2015 to 2017 is also quite good. The results of the analysis of the work on capital adequacy ratio of the company will give an overview of how companies can manage the capital works. We suggest PT Bank BNI Tbk. can use working capital optimally. So the company could cover the liabilities are short-term and the company was able to produce profits every year.


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