Working capital management & profitability - A comparative study among industries
Abstract
Appropriate management for the working capital is very meaningful for a company to maintain the financial health and operation business activities in a success path. Some companies in one industry need to expand their receivable or inventory to get an efficient working capital strategy, while some need to increase their payable in another industry. The requirement about working capital index for each industry is dissimilar.
This study is based on the original research, which conducted Filbeck, G., & Krueger, T. M. (2005), which named ―An analysis of working capital management results across industries‖.
This research will find out the significant different in the working capital level among industries in Vietnam market across time. Furthermore, this paper also investigates if there was any upward or downward trend through time within industries for the working capital. The primary methodology will be statistic technique working on the data from Vietnam Stock Market in ten year (2009 – 2018). Then, from the above results, an analysis about the effect of working capital management on the profitability in the Vietnam market will be conducted.