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The three types of financial management decisions include capital structure, capital budgeting and working capital. They are designed to answer the main source of capital used to run the firm.
Working capital is said to be the life blood of a business. Working capital, signifies funds required for day-to-day operations of the firm. In financial literature, there exists two concepts of working capital, namely gross concept and net concept. According to gross concept, working' capital refers to current assets viz, cash, marketable securities, inventories of raw material, work-in-process, finished goods and receivables. According to net concept, working capital refers to the difference between current assets and current liabilities. Ordinarily, working capital can be classified into fixed or permanent and variable or fluctuating parts. The minimum level of investment in current assets regularly employed in business is, called fixed or permanent working capital and the extra working capital needed to support the changing business activities is called variable, or fluctuating working capital. What is the nature and the scope of working capital decisions? What are the important dimensions of working capital management? What are the basic decision criteria, principles and approaches applicable in the field of working capital management? In this chapter, we shall take up each of these questions and thus take an overview of working capital management.
Working capital is the money available to the company to carry out its day to day operations. Managing this capital is important to every company because important functions of the company may be compromised if capital is not managed properly.
One may seek advice, guidelines of any piece of information about working capital management from a financial specialist who analyses one's unique situation and comes up with a possible solution. Other reputable sources of such information include publications such as 'Entrepreneur Press' and 'Financial Times'.