scholarly journals Working capital management, cash flow and SMEs' performance

Author(s):  
Godfred Adjapong Afrifa ◽  
Ishmael Tingbani
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Ika Permatasari ◽  
Dian Puspitasari

AbstractThis research aims to analyze the affect between working capital management as measured by current ratio (CR), cash flow ratio (CFR), and debt to equity ratio (DER) to profitability as measured by value added (VA). The sample used was manufacturing company listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2009-2011. The analysisis using logistic regression. The results show thatcurrent ratio had negativeeffect on the profitability and cash flow ratio had positiveeffect on the profitabilityratio. However, debt to equity ratio had no effect on profitability.


2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mias Fatimatuzzahra ◽  
Retno Kusumastuti

Working capital is directly related to the operations activity of the company to produce goods. To be able to properly manage its working capital, the company must determine what factors that can affect working capital. Actually, there are many factors that affect working capital management but the factors that used in this study are firm size, leverage, firm growth, cash flow, profitability, capital expenditure, and GDP. Meanwhile, working capital management is reflected by the cash conversion cycle. By taking samples at manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period of 2010 - 2014, found there are a significant effect of firm size, firm growth, cash flow, profitability, and GDP. This is due to the leverage and capital expenditure shows insignificant effect.


A very much planned and actualized working capital administration is required to contribute decidedly to the production of a company's worth. "Working Capital" is the capital put resources into various things of current resources required for the business, viz, stock, account holders, money and other current resources, for example, advances and advances to outsiders. Those present resources are basic for smooth business tasks and appropriate usage of fixed resources. The firm ought to keep up adequate degree of working cash-flow to create upto a given limit and expand the arrival on interest in fixed resources. Lack of working capital prompts lower limit usage, lower turnover and henceforth lower benefits. Working Capital, in overabundance of the sum required to deliver to full limit, is inactive and subsequently prompts decrease in benefits. Henceforth the decree "Ampleness is an ethicalness, surfeit isn't". The examination focuses on the fundamental segments of working capital like stock administration, money due administration and money the board of Public Enterprises. The apparatuses utilized in this investigation incorporates proportion examination, pattern examination and rate strategy. [1],[ 3],[5]


Author(s):  
Michael J. Schill

This case captures the cash-flow and working-capital management problems typical of small, growing businesses. At the end of 2005, Bob and Maggie Brown have completed their third year of operating Horniman Horticulture, a $1-million-revenue woody-shrub grower in central Virginia. While experiencing booming demand and improving margins, the couple is puzzled by their plummeting cash balance. The case highlights the difference between cash flow and accounting profits, as well as the common negative effects of growth on cash flow. The case provides a forum for establishing appreciation for the relevance of free cash flow to business owners and managers, introducing financial ratio analysis, developing the concept of the cash cycle and working-capital management, and motivating the use of financial models.


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Cash flow ratios are the ratios are calculated using balance sheet, income statement, and the statement of cash flow. The statement of cash flow is used to calculate all of the 28 cash flow ratios. These ratios may be used in financial management. The financial managers can utilize the ratios in especially the seven functions of the financial management. They are financial analysis, working capital management, capital structure, capital budgeting, dividend policy, leverage, and valuation. All of the cash flow ratios could be used financial analysis and working capital management functions of the financial management. 14 ratios in capital structure, 10 ratios in capital budgeting, 8 ratios in dividend policy, 8 ratios in leverage, and a ratio in valuation may be used.


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