Prague Economic Papers 2023, 32(4):367-388 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.835

Importance of Working Capital Management and Its Components for Firm Profitability

Zdeněk Toušek ORCID...a, Jana Hinke ORCID...a, Barbora Gregor ORCID...b, Martin Prokop ORCID...a
a Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Trade and Finance, Prague, Czech Republic
b Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, Prague, Czech Republic

The current situation of slower economic growth is leading to a more difficult access to funds and unpredictable payment behaviour of customers, which predetermines growing importance of working capital management. The aim of the present article is to examine the effects of working capital investment and its components (inventories, accounts receivable, accounts payable and cash) on the firm's performance in the case of non-cyclical and cyclical industries in the Czech Republic. The underlying dataset comprises corporate data of 293 firms from 2010 to 2018. The calculations reveal that both industries applied over the period a very similar conservative working capital management strategy consisting in increasing working capital investment accompanied by simultaneous development of all its components. The results also indicate dissimilarities in the importance of working capital components with respect to the firm's performance. Cash seems to be the most important component, contrary to inventories, which are insignificant jointly for both industries. Accounts receivable and accounts payable are significant only for cyclical industry firms.

Klíčová slova: accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, profitability, working capital management
JEL classification: L25, M21, O12

Vloženo: 23. srpen 2022; Revidováno: 15. březen 2023; Přijato: 5. duben 2023; Zveřejněno: 24. srpen 2023  Zobrazit citaci

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Toušek, Z., Hinke, J., Gregor, B., & Prokop, M. (2023). Importance of Working Capital Management and Its Components for Firm Profitability. Prague Economic Papers, 32(4), 367-388. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.835
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