Working Capital Management and Financial Planning (Administración del Capital de Trabajo y Planeación Financiera) (Spanish)

Abstract:     
This is a teaching material for a module of Financial analysis at Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar. The educational material was developed with Professor Ricardo Davila from Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. The written material has been modified several times using the feedback from students and other users. This material is an unpublished one.

This chapter presents tips on how to manage working capital. Some of them are traditional procedures that with the upcoming of electronic business are deemed to disappear. We also show with some examples how to proceed to evaluate the convenience/inconvenience of changing policies, such as accounts receivable policies in the firm. We give detailed examples for each case.

Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 14

Keywords: Working Capital Management, Accounts Receivables, Cash Management, Inventories

JEL Classification: M41

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