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Prior studies on this have already proved the existence of relationship between working capital and firm's performance. In extension to the existing literature, this study is designed to investigate the relationship between working capital management and the firm's performance i.e. impact on...
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The paper presents different lengths of working capital cycle and cash conversion cycle in manufacturing companies in Poland in two sub-periods: 2001-2004 and 2005-2008. The conducted research shows that the working capital cycle is varied, related to the sector. In most sections it has a...
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This study comparatively examines the determinants of working capital management for listed vs. unlisted firms, and assesses the impact of this policy on profitability by focusing on the cash conversion cycle, a commonly used measure of working capital management. By using a large UK public and...
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This paper reports the results of an investigation of the effect of Working Capital Management (WCM) practices on profitability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), from the perspective of financial directors. Specifically, I look at their WCM...
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This paper examines the influence of cash flow on the relationship between net working capital and firm performance. The paper employs unbalanced panel data regression analysis on a sample of 6,926 non-financial small and medium enterprises in the United Kingdom for the period from 2004 to...
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The final topic in a series looking at financial management from a theoretical perspective, working capital management provides the focus of the current article. We investigate how three key axioms — the risk-return tradeoff, agency conflicts, and stockholder wealth maximization — relate to...
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This study comparatively examines the determinants of working capital management for listed vs. unlisted firms, and assesses the impact of this policy on profitability by focusing on the cash conversion cycle, a commonly used measure of working capital management. By using a large UK public and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064258
We examine the value effect of working capital management (WCM) for a large sample of US firms between 1982-2011. Our results indicate (i) the existence of an optimal level of working capital policy; and (ii) firms that converge to that optimal level (either by increasing or decreasing their...
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Considering the significance of working capital management, the current study attempts to examine various aspects of working capital management, i.e., current asset structure, liquidity, working capital policy, and working capital management efficiency as represented by working capital ratios of...
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This paper reports the results of an investigation of the effect of Working Capital Management (WCM) on the performance of listed Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The study also examines whether the effect of WCM on performance differs between ‘small' and ‘medium' firms. The paper...
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