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Cash Cycle

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Cash cycle
In general, the time between cash disbursement and cash collection. In net working capital management, it can be thought of as the operating cycle less the accounts payable payment period.

Cash Cycle
The time between an expenditure of money to make a product and the collection of accounts receivable from the sale of that product. Obviously, a shorter cash cycle is preferable. A longer cash cycle may indicate a current or potential problem with cash flow.


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However, regardless of the changes, the basics remain: Every business needs its finance department to produce financial statements, develop budgets, manage the company's cash cycle and interact with the financial markets.
Peter Rizzo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IC Isaacs, commented, "The fourth quarter retail environment proved to be challenging, particularly for our independent specialty accounts which make up nearly 80% of our business and which typically function on a short cash cycle.
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