cash conversion cycle

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Cash conversion cycle

The length of time between a firm's purchase of inventory and the receipt of cash from accounts receivable.

Cash Conversion 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 conversion cycle is preferable. A longer cash conversion cycle may indicate a current or potential problem with cash flow.

cash conversion cycle

The time required for a business to turn purchases into cash receipts from customers. A short cycle allows a business to quickly acquire cash that can be used for additional purchases or debt repayment.

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The purpose of effective WCM is to reduce cash conversion cycle (CCC) to the acceptable optimal point which suites firm's requirement (Hager, 1976).

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They reported that there was a significant evidence of a negative relationship between gross profit and cash conversion cycle.

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Shin and Soenen (1998), in an anecdotal example, utilize a variable, the Net Trade Cycle (NTC), which expresses the three components of the cash conversion cycle as a percentage of sales.

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This is followed by the development of hypotheses around the relationships between cash conversion cycle and capital requirements, liquidity, and returns, and how this may change over time.

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1996) examined the relationship between aggressive working capital management and profitability of US firms using Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) as a measure of working capital management where a shorter CCC represents the aggressiveness of working capital management.

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