Working Capital Management : A Comparative Study of Siemens AG and General Electric

The focal theme of the current research is to conduct comparative assessment of two firms in light of financial metrics will identify the strength and weaknesses of the respective firms. The comparative overview will allow one to understand the standards and practices that a firm can emulate to guarantee success. The firms under consideration are General Electrics and Siemens AG. Extensive analysis found that the condition of General Electric is much better when it comes to liquidity and leverage. However, in terms of profitability and cash flow, the performance of SIE was found to be much better, which is consistent with the fact that firms with high WCM (GE) had low profitability