The Fundamentals of Working Capital Management Working Capital refers to the company’s current or short-lived assets. This includes cash‚ marketable securities‚ notes receivable‚ account receivable‚ inventories and other current assets. Non-current assets are referred to as capital assets. These are long-term assets and are mostly depreciable in nature. In evaluating an investment in capital assets‚ the future cash flows‚ the risk of those cash flows as well as the opportunity cost of the funds
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Define working capital. What could happen if an organization neglected to manage its working capital? What techniques would you recommend for your organization in order to appropriately manage their working capital? Why? “ Working capital is defined as the difference between current assets and current liabilities” (SBA‚ 2013). It’s the total amount of cash or inventory that can quickly be converted into cash or assets in order to grow an organization. Working capital is calculated by subtracting
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Working Capital Strategies Paper Philip Wheeler‚ Efrain Fuentes‚ Onorio Dimas‚ Michele Cox FIN/419 February 9‚ 2013 Sarah Newton Working Capital Strategies Paper General Motors has continued to expand both their product lines and their influence throughout the world. The company is building factories in several countries only dreamed of a decade ago‚ including China and continuing to turn profits each year. GM seems to focus on profitability and high returns on their investments. Each business
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Working Capital Strategies for Starbucks Current (for fiscal year 2007 & 2008) Working Capital Management: 1. Working capital (WC) for year 2007 and 2008 are negative‚ primarily due to increased current liabilities from short term borrowings. These short term borrowings have been taken partly to repay previous year’s short term borrowing and partly to finance increased non-cash working capital. 2. Number of days of inventory is decreased for 63 to 55 days. This level of inventory implies
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About the Lima Tire Plant Located in Lima‚ Ohio‚ the plant building encompassed over 1.5 million square feet and was situated on 128 acres of land. About 1‚120 people were employed at the Lima location: 970 were hourly employees and 150 were salaried employees. The hourly personnel at the plant were unionized by the United Steelworkers (USW)‚ which had merged with the United Rubber Workers in 1995. The Lima Plant had undergone a $100 million expansion and modernization effort in 2000‚ which enabled
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Working in Partnership in Health in Social Care Student: Ramona Morrison P1012075 Lecturer: Franklin Group: 36B Introduction Working in partnership in health and social care is a collaboration of health care services that provide care in the health and social care sector. These can be Corporal‚ Organisations‚ Agency‚ Community service providers with shared interest. For effective service to be provided across the health care sector there must be a collaboration of shared information. Working
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The Case Interview • What is a case interview? The Case Interview • What specific skills does it assess? • How to prepare for a case interview? • An interactive example. What is a “Case Interview” anyway? The Case Interview Simulation of a business problem. Similar to what our associates encounter every day. Series of open-ended questions. They’re designed to stimulate your conceptual‚ quantitative‚ analytical and – most importantly – creative abilities. The Case Interview There are
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Case Incident - “Working at ThinkLink” Read the following case study and answer the questions asked. Mallory Murray had not had much experience working as part of a team. What little exposure she had had to teams was in her organizational behavior‚ marketing research‚ and strategy formulation courses. When she interviewed with Think Link she did not give much thought to the extensive use of cross-functional teams. She did tell them she worked well with people and thought that she could be
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htm Top management teams’ social capital in Taiwan The impact on firm value in an emerging economy Chaur-Shiuh Young Department of Accounting‚ National Chung Cheng University‚ Min-Hsiung‚ Taiwan‚ ROC Abstract Purpose – The paper aims to examine the contributions of top management teams’ (TMTs) social capital to the creation of business value. Design/methodology/approach – Least-squares regression is used to estimate the relationship between TMT social capital and Tobin’s Q‚ while controlling
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consumer lending‚ a major part of the asset side of banking‚ is all flowing toward national consolidators like Capital One. -RICHARD D. FAIRBANK‚ CEO AND CHAIRMAN‚ CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION ’ United Kingdom‚ the Hfs Group‚ to strengthen its Global Financial services (GFS) subsidiary in the British market. As of April 2005‚ it possessed sufficient liquidity ($21 billion) and capital ($9.2 billion)4 to enable its famous brand to expand into new markets and seize the right opportunities for
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