Causal relationship between working capital management and firm's profitability: empirical evidence from Indian FMCG firms

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Bagchi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Working Capital Management

scholarly journals The Impact of Working Capital Management on Firm Profitability: Empirical Evidence from the Polish Listed Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Sorin Anton ◽  
Anca Afloarei Nucu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Working Capital Management ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Firm Profitability ◽  
Break Even Point ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between working capital and firm profitability for a sample of 719 Polish listed firms over the period of 2007–2016. The scarcity of empirical evidence for emerging economies and the importance of working capital efficiency motivate the research on the working capital–financial performance relationship. The paper adopts a quantitative approach using different panel data techniques (ordinary least squares, fixed effects, and panel-corrected standard errors models). The empirical results report an inverted U-shape relationship between working capital level and firm profitability, meaning that working capital has a positive effect on the profitability of Polish firms to a break-even point (optimum level). After the break-even point, working capital starts to negatively affect firm profitability. The study brings theoretical and practical contributions. It extends and complements the literature on the field by highlighting new evidence on the non-linear interrelation between working capital management (WCM) and corporate performance in Poland. From the practitioners’ perspective, the results highlight the importance of WCM for firm profitability.

scholarly journals The impact of merger on working capital management efficiency of American production firms

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amarjit Gill ◽  
Nahum Biger ◽  
Rajen Tibrewala ◽  
Pradeep Prabhakar
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Working Capital Management ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Management Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of merger on the efficiency of working capital management of American production firms. This study applied a co-relational research design. A sample of 497 listed American production firms for a period of 4 years (from 2010-2014) was analyzed. The findings of this study indicate that mergers may contribute to an improvement of the efficiency of working capital management. This is a co-relational study that investigated the association between merger and working capital management efficiency. There is not necessarily a causal relationship between the two, although the paper provides some conjectures to such relationship. The findings of this study may only be generalized to firms similar to those that were included in this research. This study contributes to the literature on the factors that improve the efficiency of working capital management, and in particular on the association between merger and the efficiency of working capital management. The findings may be useful for financial managers, investors, financial management consultants, and other stakeholders.

scholarly journals Working Capital Management and Corporate Profitability: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Thanh Hong Nguyen ◽  
Tuan Van Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Credit Policy ◽  
Working Capital Management ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Firm Profitability ◽  
Real Practice ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between working capital management and corporate profitability of Vietnamese listed firms. We propose a different interpretation of the empirical evidence that takes into account the dependency of collection and payment decisions. This helps establish the causal relationship between working capital management and firm profitability, which made the interpretation of the empirical results more meaningful and consistent with the real practice of firms. The analysis results based on a sample of 374 Vietnamese listed firms in the period from 2008 to 2014 show that working capital management positively affects the performance of Vietnamese listed companies. However, the results also indicate that Vietnamese firms do not intentionally use trade credit policy to enhance firms’ performance and the observed relationship between trade credit and profitability, though significant, is just by coincidence.

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