DSI + DSO – DPO = cash-conversion cycle, or the amount of cash the business needs for working capital. For example, a retailer buys merchandise from a vendor with 30-day-payment terms. The retailer ...

It’s also known as the working capital ratio. Current assets are assets that a company expects to use or sell within one year or one business cycle, whichever is less. Importantly, they are ...

Working capital is the money used to cover all of a company's short-term expenses, including inventory, payments on short-term debt, and day-to-day expenses—called operating expenses.

If your business is falling short on cash, and it's getting harder to (literally) keep the lights on, a working capital loan can be a short-term answer to your financial prayers. This type of loan ...

We think Foshan Haitian Flavouring and Food is in sound financial shape as it possesses abundant cash reserves and runs on very low leverage with minimal debt. The company has a debt/equity ratio of ...

Kubota Corporation is entering an early phase of capital cycle recovery, with dealers' inventory declining. Despite macroeconomic softness and weak U.S. tractor demand, Kubota's capital discipline ...

Take, for example, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry. Though admired by investors for its low marginal costs, network effects and customer switching costs, a key ingredient in the sector’s ...

Li-Cycle, International Recycling Group and Redwood Materials all received commitments from the federal agency. But a ...

A model taken from pubs and hotels, but what that's allowed us in the background, through the partnerships we do with landlords, is to retain a far more sustainable partnership with our clients. The ...

Loma Negra maintains a solid financial structure with low debt and stable margins despite macroeconomic challenges in 2024.

Apply this to the latest accounts for consumer staples group Reckitt Benckiser (RKT) (which showed average payables of £5.4bn and selling costs of £5.57bn), and you get 354 days. This seems alarming: ...

Gompers, P., and J. Lerner. The Venture Capital Cycle. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. (Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2001 (Chinese edition). Tokyo: Springer ...