Working Capital Management and Impact on the Profitability of Cement Companies

Abstract

The present study has examined the relationship between working capital management and its newlineprofitability .It aimed at finding out how working capital management like inventory newlinemanagement, account receivable and account payable management and cash management affects newlinethe profitability of the cement companies in India. The study has also examined the relationship newlinebetween the liquidity and profitability and relationship between Size of the firm and profitability newlineof the cement companies in India. The study has been conducted on a sample of 20 cement firms newlinelisted in Bombay stock Exchange for a period of ten years from 2005 2014.The research newlinemethod adopted in the study is based on the secondary data collected from the annual reports of newlinethe companies. This study has used both the quantitative and descriptive model of analysis. In newlinequantitative analysis study applied two methods, pearson correlation and hierarchical regression newlineanalysis. Correlation and regression has been applied using Statistical Package for Social Science newline(SPSS Version 20.00). newline