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Impact of working capital on firm’s profitability
A case study of sugar and leather sector of Pakistan
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Impact of Working Capital Management
on profitability(Case study of Sugar and Leather Firms)
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Waqas mehmood
Baf05103057
1. Introduction:
This article examines the impact of working capital management on Firm’s profitability within the context of Pakistan Sugar and Leather Companies. Working capital management plays a vital role in companies’ financial performance.
Working capital is represented as the availability of capital to satisfy day to day operations of the business. The Firm can run simply their day to day operations through excessive level of current assets. Effective and economical utilization of the resources of firm can maintain the profitability level of the firms. Cash flows area unit enhanced by effective management of assets.
The major elements of Working Capital (WC) are debtor collection period, creditor payment period and inventory holding period. Trade credit policy and huge stock will enhance the sales volume of Sugar and Leather firms. Firm will increase their profitability by reducing their debtors collection period and stockholding period.
Inventory is that the main part of Working Capital. High level of inventory can increase the sales growth,
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reducing the cost of supply and additionally reducing the cost of production. The second element of Working Capital is debtor collection period. The profitability of firm may be magnified by the short length of debtor days. The next necessary element of Working Capital is creditor’s payment period. The firm can enhance their profitability by taking long creditors payment period. We are selected 4-years data from 2008-2012 of firms listed in the Pakistan Stock Exchange. Working capital management directly affects the firm’s profitability.
2. Objective of the Study:
The objective of this analysis is to focusing on working capital management and its impact on gain for a sample of 5 Sugar and Leather firms over a time period of 4 years from 2008-2012. To analyze the problem statement we have got developed some objectives of the research.
To evaluate the independent variables that has a
significant impact on gain.
To verify the connection among working capital
management and gain of Sugar and Leather firms over
4 years 2008-2012.
To measure the relationship among gain and
leverage.
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To construct a knowledgeable conclusion concerning
the impact of assets management on firm’s financial
performance.
4. Problem Statement:
“Have the Asset Management a vital impact on gain of
Pakistan sugar and leather industries?”
Without sensible and proper management of working
capital elements, firms cannot continue their essential
day to day operations effectively. In this research we
will analyze that whether there is any relation between
working capital and profitability. This relation may be
positive or negative. In addition the analysis in this
paper will allow us to identify the variables which are
of key importance to Sugar and Leather Industry.
5. Research Question
As I previously described that the aim of my research
is the measurement of the effect of working capital
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management on financial performance of Sugar and
Leather firms, so at this stage we develop a set of
testable hypothesis, the Null hypothesis and the
Alternative hypothesis:
Hypothesis:
H0 = Working Capital has negative impact on
profitability.
H1= Working Capital has positive impact on profitability.
6. Significance of the study:
The significance of this research provides easy way to
understand about the relationship between components of
working capital management and corporate profitability.
Similarly, this research will be helpful for managers,
firm’s stakeholders such as creditors and investors,
professionals, financial analysts, and policy makers of
those selected Sugar and Leather firms to take strong
decision on management of working capital. This
research provides a direction that profitability level
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of the firm could be enhanced by the good management of
working capital.
7. Literature Review
Working capital management can be considered an
important source of profitability of firm. Many
researchers investigated the impact of working capital
management of firm. Many researcher have worked on the
same issue but study of shin and soenen (1998) and
deloof (2003) founded the working capital management
strongly affected the cooperate profitability.
Therefore sugar and leather sector should address this
issue seriously.
In 2010 Lecturer balashundaram nimalathasan from
university of Jaffna srilanka studied the impact of
working capital on profitability of selected listed
manufacturing companies of sri lanka from year 2003-
2007 and revealed the results that the cash conversion
cycle and return on assets are negative correlated
which mean cash conversion cycle increase when return
on asset decrease.
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Amarjeet gill Nahum biger and Neil mathur studied the
relationship of working capital management and
profitability in 2010 of the sample of 88 firms listed
at New York stock for the period of three years from
2005 to 2007 and found statistically significant
relationship between cash conversion cycle and
profitability, measured through gross operating profit.
Alipour(2011) took the sample of 1063 firms listed at
Tehran stock exchange and found a negative significant
relationship between no of days account receivable,
inventory turnover and cash conversion cycle whereas
positive significant relationship between number of
days accountable with profitability and hence concluded
that working capital management significant affect the
profitability of the firm.
Kulkanaya napompech in 2012 examined the effect of
working capital management on profitability. The
regression analysis was based on the panel sample of
255 companies listed on the Thailand stock exchange
from 2007 through 2007 and reveled the result of
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negative relationship between gross operating profit
and the inventory conversion period and the receivable
collection period. He suggested that mangers can
increase the profitability of firm by shorting the cash
conversion cycle, inventory conversion period and
receivable conversion period.
Zafar ullah Malik and athar Iqbal from Iqra University
in 2012 studied the impact of working capital
management on firm’s profitability in sugar industries
of Pakistan for the year 1999to2009.they used secondary
data of 19 sugar mills which are listed at Karachi
stock exchange and showed the result that the sale
growth, current ratio, number of days inventory and
number of days account payable are significant
affecting profitability of the firm with sale gearing
rationed no of days account receivable are
insignificant in the research.
Zubair Arshad and Muhammad yasir ghondal in 2013
studied the working capital management and
profitability of Pakistan cement sector and revealed
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that there is significant negative relation between
working capital management on profitability of firm.
In Pakistan there have been few researchers on working
capital management .Sana and shah (2006) worked on oil
and gas sector. They took very small sample of 7 firms
and they concluded that profitability shareholder value
can be increased by managing the working capital
efficiently.
Nazir and Afza (2007) in their research analyze the
relationship between aggressive and conventional way of
investing in working capital for 205 firms for 17
different sub sectors. Their result showed negative
relationship between aggressive approach in working
capital investment and the profitability of firm.
Though researcher have studied the relation between the
components of working capital management and the
corporate profitability with reference to Pakistan but
it’s not enough. There is still lack of evidence of
relationship between the two variables.
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This is the motivational force to do a research on
sugar and leather sector of Pakistan. For the purpose
sample of 5 sugar and 5 leather firms listed on Karachi
stock exchange has been taken during 2008 to 2012.
8. Methodology:
In this study we have to identify sample companies and
key variables that has a relationship between working
capital and profitability of Sugar and Leather firms.
The secondary data necessarily required to perform the
research was gathered from official site of sugar and
leather firms and some require data was abstracted from
the library of state bank and Karachi stock exchange.
Rest of data is collected from annual reports.
Sample size:
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In this study, we have utilized the secondary data to
estimate the above data. We are generally selected
sample of 5 out of 35 mills of Sugar and 5 out of
Leather firms listed in Stock Exchange and gather the
data of 4 years from period 2008 to 2012.
Table 1: Selected sugar and Leather Companies
(Companies will be selected when research start)
Variables Selected:
In this study we identify different key variables that has effect on company’s liquidity and profitability.
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Sr. No.
Sugar Companies
1
2
3
4
5
Sr No.
Leather Companies
1
2
3
4
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Choice of variables depends on previous studies. They include dependent and independent variables.Independent variables include current asset, liquid asset, Acid test ratio or Quick ratio.
The dependent variable is return on investment
Table 2: Selected Variables
Sr No.
Independent Variable Dependent Variable
1 Cash conversion cycle (CCC)
2 Interest Coverage Ratio (ICR)
3 Debt Equity Ratio (DER)
Return on Assets (ROA)
4 Age of Inventory (AI)5 Age of Debtors (AD)6 Age of Creditors(AC)
Table 3: method of computation
Variables Method of Computation
Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) Stockholding Period +
Debtors Collection Period – Creditors Payment Period
Interest Coverage PBIT/ Interest
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Ratio (ICR)Debt-Equity Ratio
(DER)External Equities or debts/Equity capital
Age of Inventory (AI) (Average Inventory/Average Cost of Sales) x 365 days
Age of Debtors (AD) (Average Debtors/Average Annual Credit Sales) x 365
days
Age of Creditors (AC) (Average Creditors/Average Cost of Sales) x 365 days
Return on Assets (ROA)
PBIT/ Total assets
9. Bibliography
Kulkanaya Napompech effect of working capital on the profitability of Thai listed firms International journal of trade economics and finance vol 3 no 3 June 2012
Zubair Arshad and yasir gondal IMPACT OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ON PROFITABILITY A CASE OF THE PAKISTAN CEMENT INDUSTRY INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS vol 5 no 2 June 2013
Lecturer balashundaram nimalathasan working capital management and its impact on profitability a case study of selected listed manufacturing companies in srilanka information management
Amarjit gill nahum biger and neil mathur the relationship between working capital and profitability evidence from the united states business and economics journal vol 2010:bej-10
Zafar ullah Malik and athar Iqbal affect of working capital management of firm profitability in sugar industry of Pakistan mpra 1 may 2012
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Alipour Mohammad (2011) working capital management and corporate profitability evidence from Iran world applied science journal 12 (7), 1093-1099
Deloof m 2003 does working capital management affects profitability of Belgian FIRMS? JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE MANGEMENT 25 3 945-968
Shah A & a Sana 2006 impact of working capital management on the profitability of oil and gas sector of Pakistan European journal of scientific research 15 3 301-307
Zubairi, H. Jamal (2011). Impact of Working Capital Management and Capital Structure on Profitability of Automobile Firms in Pakistan. Finance and Corporate Governance Conference.
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