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C/F/1333. Analysis of effective working capital management. Case studies Alliance Boots and the Home Retail Group
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- 2010
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This paper examines working capital, and aims to assess the ways that businesses can manage this. The paper begins by providing the background to the effective management of working capital in great detail. The paper then introduces the case studies of Alliance Boots, beauty and pharmaceutical retail company, and the Home Retail Group, a furniture retail company. The next section of the paper identifies and describes the most common measures of effective working capital management. These include Days working capital ratio, Cash conversion efficiency, Days sales outstanding, Days Payable Outstanding, and Asset turnover. All of these ratios are applied to the case studies, and the paper concludes by comparing the two.
KEYWORDS: Working capital, Alliance Boots, Home Retail Group, Days working capital ratio, Cash conversion efficiency, Days sales outstanding, Days Payable Outstanding, Asset turnover,
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