Liquidity plays a significant role in the successful functioning of a business firm. A firm should ensure that it does not suffer from lack-of or excess liquidity to meet its short-term compulsions. A study of liquidity is of major importance to both the internal and the external analysts...

Liquidity management is a concept that is gaining serious attention all over the world because of the current financial turmoil and the state of the world economy. The concern of business owners and managers all over the world is to devise a strategy which will help in maintaining liquidity as...

Prediction of financial distress has been a major concern for all companies since the financial crisis of 2008. Financial distress is detrimental to big and small organisations alike. It is costly because it creates a tendency for firms to do things that are harmful to debt holders and...

Theoretically, the ultimate objective of an effective working capital management policy is to enable a firm to strike a balance between the two core objectives of the firm, i.e. profitability and liquidity. But increasing profitability would tend to reduce firms' liquidity and too much attention...

Experts say that the goal of working capital management should be to enable a firm to maximize profits of its operations while meeting both short term debt and upcoming operational expenses, i.e. to preserve liquidity. But increasing profitability would tend to reduce firms' liquidity and too...

Theoretically, a company needs to maintain a liquidity level that is not detrimental to its profitability. Empirical evidence shows a negative correlation between liquidity and profitability but a company cannot operate with zero liquidity in order to maximize its profits. Normally firms try to...

The recent spate of global crises, including Covid-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war and the Sri Lankan crisis, have hindered the economic growth of almost all nations. The prevailing economic downturn has forced many organizations to assess their financial future and the possibility of financial...

Cash conversion cycle (CCC) has been considered a useful measure of firm’s effective working capital management and especially the cash management. This study was conducted with the aim to look into the association of the cash conversion cycle with the size and profitability of the firm. The...