Effects of working capital management on manufacturing and processing firm's profitability : Evidence from Vietnam stock exchange
Abstract
The working capital management plays an important role for success or failure of firm in business because of its effect on firm’s profitability. The primary purpose of this research was based on secondary data collected from the manufacturing and processing that listed firms in Vietnam Stock Exchange for the period of 2007-2012 with an attempt to investigate the relationship existing between profitability, the cash conversion cycle and its components for listed firms in Vietnam Stock Exchange. Our findings show the negative relationship between the gross operating profits with inventory conversion cycle, the receivable collection period and accounts payable day. Therefore, managers can increase the firm’s profitability by shortening the cash conversion cycle, inventory cycle and receivable collection day. Besides we cannot increase profitability by lengthening the payables days to suppliers. The findings also prove that industry characteristics have an impact on gross operating profits.
Keywords: Profitability, Working Capital management, Vietnam stock exchange