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Working capital management and corporate performance: evidence from a study of Indian firms

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  • Pankaj K. Agarwal
  • Sunil Kumar Varma

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Working capital is the firm's circulating funds required for meeting day-to-day operations. Effective management of working capital is therefore very critical to a firm's financial health. The challenge of working capital management is to strike a balance between the liquidity and profitability. Therefore, it follows, that precise evaluation of working capital performance of various companies is extremely important. For, there is a need to develop and regularly update quantitative benchmarks for effective management of working capital both at firm and industry level. Towards this end, this paper studies 366 non-financial Indian corporates, chosen from a widely followed broad-based stock index BSE-500, over a three-year period, from 2007 to 2010, to assess their working capital performance. In addition, the study finds significant relationship between working capital management and firm profitability. The methodology followed is that of CFO Europe (1997), Anand and Gupta (2003) and Anand and Malhotra (2007).

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  • Pankaj K. Agarwal & Sunil Kumar Varma, 2013. "Working capital management and corporate performance: evidence from a study of Indian firms," International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(4), pages 552-571.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:7:y:2013:i:4:p:552-571
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    Cited by:

    1. Lupu Dan, 2013. "Financial Micromanagement For Bse Firms," Annals - Economy Series, Constantin Brancusi University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 5, pages 5-9, October.

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