IMPACT OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ON SURVIVAL OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMES) IN NAIROBI KENYA BY GACHOGU BENSON KAMAU REG. NO:L50/82852/2012 FACILITATED BY PROF. PROF.POKHARIYAL‚ GANESH P A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) JANUARY‚ 2013 DECLARATION I Walusimbi Samuel declare that this project report is my original work and has
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Working Capital Strategies By Forecasted If Microsoft forecasted revenue increase by 20 percent’s for the upcoming year‚ several parts of the annual report will be affected by the 20% increase forecast. First of all‚ the income statements will alter their revenues from 16‚195 million dollars to 19‚434 million dollars. Revenue is not the only thing that changes since there are other expenses that need to be changed. For example in the income statement‚ the operating expenses will not have
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DECLARATION This is to certify that the project titled “Project Appraisal for working capital and term loan financing” is a bonafide work done by Mr. Nishit Chhabra‚ enrollment no : 09BSHYD0531‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements of MBA program and submitted to IBS‚ Hyderabad. I also declare that the project is a result of my own efforts and that has not been copied from anyone. This work was not submitted earlier to any other university or institute for the award of the degree. Nishit
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Starbucks Working Capital Strategies Starbucks is one of the largest most recognizable names in the coffee industry known worldwide. Starbucks has been able to hold onto their business making revenue in these current rough economic times. Even though they have had to shut down some stores it is nothing new than what any other company does when stores are not brining in the revenue that is expected to cover expenses of the business. To see what kind of impact the decisions that Starbucks has
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greater importance. The company would need more working capital funds to support the expanding sales. Mr Shyam Lal knew that it may not be easy to get funds from banks. He was wondering how he could reduce the working capital funds requirement of his company without affecting the sales. In the beginning of 2009‚ Mr Shyam Lal‚ Chairman and Managing Director of Reliable Texamill Limited (RTL)was concerned about the company’s working capital management. As the company was expecting its net sales to
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decision(s) about which capital projects will be undertaken by a firm. Nominal cash flows determine its degree of profitability. However‚ in making the capital budgeting decision both real and nominal concepts must be considered. The purpose of this paper is to continue the discussion of the role of inflation in capital budgeting‚ and to focus on the individual components of the process to draw specific conclusions with respect to the interaction between the cost of capital‚ inflation‚ and the cash
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Working Capital Simulation Richard Hughes FIN/571 January Nineteenth‚ 2015 William Stokes Working Capital Simulation Sunflower Nutraceuticals (SNC) is barely breaking even and is strategizing on methods improve its growth and cash flow through capital budgeting. This paper will discuss the decisions the CEO made in each area of the 3-phase process‚ and evaluate how the decisions affected SNC. The numbers in this analysis are in thousands. Background SNC provides dietary supplements to individual
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FACTORS DETERMINING WORKING CAPITAL REQUIREMENT The working capital needs of a firm are determined and influenced by various factors. A wide variety of considerations may affect the quantum of working capital required and these considerations may vary from time to time. The working capital needed at one point of time may not be good enough for some other situation. The determination of working capital requirement is a continuous process and must be undertaken on a regular basis in the light of
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Assignment 2: Working Capital Abstract In this paper I’ll analyze the fundamental differences between the working capital structures and components for Google and Oracle‚ and speculate upon the main reasons why such differences exist; how each company could improve its working capital positions. As a Wall Street Analyst who has to recommend one of the companies as an investment to a company’s clients; based solely on that company’s working capital; as an Investment Banker
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PGDIB SUMMER PROJECT 2006-2008 “Working Capital Financing to SMEs” AT The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited TABLE OF CONTENT INDEX TO CONTENTS PAGE NO. 1. Executive Summary 1 2. Introduction 2 3. Review of literature
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