History The concept of strategy is as old as the history of wars itself. “The Art of War” the first comprehensive book on strategy was written about 500 BC. The roots of strategy are in competition. The word “strategic” derives from the Greek word “strategos‚” which means “a general set of manoeuvres carried out to overcome an enemy during combat” (Nutt & Backoff 1992‚ p. 56). However‚ corporate strategy gained the recognition of being a separate field of study around fifty years ago (Kay 2003). The
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Working with Working Capital Management Multi-Line Industry Conglomerates Family Firms In GCC Countries Abstract: An efficient Working Capital Management (WCM) has a significant effect toward the creation of a firm’s value. It is a fact that financial managers in the firms used to give concentration on managing long-term financial decisions‚ specially capital structure‚ investment decisions‚ company valuation & dividends decisions. Only little attention was given to managing the short-term
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KHALSA 10BSPHH010260 IBS HYDERABAD A REPORT ON “THE STUDY OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT” By GURDIT SINGH KHALSA 10BSPHH010260 A Report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of MBA Program of the IBS Hyderabad Distribution List: Mr. Mukesh Savai : Deputy General Manager‚ CADILA HEALTHCARE LTD. Mr. T.Koti Reddy : Professor‚ IBS HYDERABAD CADILA HEALTHCARE LTD. 13TH MAY 2011 Table of Contents S No. PARTICULARS | PAGE NO. | Executive summary
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A Report On “working capital management in hcl infosystems limited” By (Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of MBA program at ICFAI Business School‚ Chandigarh) ACKOWLEDGEMENT Achievement is finding out what you would be then doing‚ what you have to do. The higher the summit‚ the harder is the climb. The goal was fixed and we began with a determined resolved and put in ceaseless sustained hard work. Greater challenge
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Impact of Working Capital Management in the Profitability of Hindalco Industries Limited J P Singh* and Shishir Pandey** For the successful working of any business organization‚ fixed and current assets play a vital role. Management of working capital is essential as it has a direct impact on profitability and liquidity. An attempt has been made in this paper to study the working capital components and the impact of working capital management on profitability of Hindalco Industries Limited. The
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Indian telecom industry was set up in 1948‚ in technology capital Bangalore. ITI limited is the country’s premier public sector unit with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities at six locations; Bangalore in Karnataka‚ Naini‚ Rae Bareli‚ Mankapur in Uttar Pradesh‚ Srinagar in J&K and Palakkad in Kerala. The company has in-house R&D centers and its extensive marketing-cum-service outlets are spread across the length and breadth of the country. This is a report about
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[pic] WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENT OF MBA BATCH (2009-11) SUBMITTED TO : CONTROLLER OF EXAMINATION GURGAON [pic] PREFACE To start any business‚ First of all we need finance and the success of that business entirely depends on the proper management of day-to-day finance and the management of this short-term
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Management and business organization NOTES: Chapter 3 Introduction: 1. What is an organization: Consists of two or more people that have consciously arranged to create a basis from which to function on a regular basis to achieve a common goal. Despite differences the four common factors that organisations share are: people‚objectives‚ structure and management. Watson refers to 3 aspects of organisational life: o Importance of creative‚ critical and situation defining characteristics of the
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WORKING CAPITAL STRATEGIES Working capital measures the availability of liquid assets that are needed to run the day to day activities. Proper management of this working capital is a key element to business success and a number one way to prevent business failure. Businesses can maintain a better position in paying their short term debts and also to fund the operational needs of the organization through different working capital strategies. Indeed‚ making working capital works for the
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MANAGEMENT OF WORKING CAPITAL 1. Meaning and Types of Finance: Finance - Finance is the Art & Science of Managing Money - Finance is the Art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears Types & Sources of Finance ____________________________________________________________ ________ Long Term Sources of Finance - Finance required to meet Capital Expenditure - Also‚ known as Fixed Capital Finance Short Term Sources of Finance - Finance required to meet day-to-day
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