“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” Lee Bolman.
Success in business is not a random occurrence. It’s the result of planning, preparation, and execution. And it all starts with defining your business’s strategy. More specifically, it all starts with defining your business’s corporate level strategy.
Corporate strategy is the top of the planning pyramid. It is the main purpose of your business. Think of corporate level strategy as the destination toward which your business is moving. That destination affects all the strategies and decisions in every other part of your business.
So, for example, if your business has reached market saturation and you need to diversify to survive, your corporate level strategy would be to spread to new markets. That becomes the guiding force for everything your business does from now on.
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Each year, PwC UK reviews the financial performance of the largest global listed companies, assessing their working capital performance and related key indicators. In this year’s report we have continued to review five-year trends (2014 – 2018) and reflected on the advent of digital and its potential for creating value through improved working Capital management.
Globally, this research has revealed an absolute increase in net working capital (NWC) of €360bn in 2018 (up 9.4% on 2017). In relative terms, however, NWC days have improved for the first time in five years. The increase in NWC was offset by a 9.6% increase in revenue from the previous year, resulting in a small decrease in NWC Days to 47.5.
In 2016 and 2017 working capital studies, we highlighted a trend of companies maintaining working capital performance at the expense of their suppliers, and noted that this approach would not be sustainable in the long term.
Working capital management is a business tool that helps companies effectively make use of current assets, helping companies to maintain sufficient cash flow to meet short term goals and obligations. By effectively managing working capital, companies can free up cash that would otherwise be trapped on their balance sheets. As a result, they may be able to reduce the need for external borrowing, expand their businesses, fund mergers or acquisitions, or invest in R&D.
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The Indian pharmaceuticals market is the third largest in terms of volume and 13th largest in terms of value, and it accounts for 20% in the volume terms and 1.4% in value terms of the Global Pharmaceutical Industry as per a report by Equity Master. India is the largest provider of generic drugs globally with the Indian generics accounting for 20% of global exports in terms of volume. Of late, consolidation has become an important characteristic of the Indian pharmaceutical market as the industry is highly fragmented.
The present study is based on secondary data collected from a secondary source (published annual report) named as “CIPLA Ltd. Then various issues of magazines and journals, working papers, and newspapers were also accessed for the relevant and covering the period from 2012–2013 to 2016–2017 (5 years), as a part of study designed to evaluate the profitability and working capital management of CIPLA Ltd., based on the following statistical tools: Summary statistics, correlation analysis, and t-test.
Better management of working capital could help firms get a better return rather than just driving top-line growth. Let’s list these on points for your better understanding my dear leaders!
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In analysing the working-capital performance of 17 industries, the PwC report shows that 11 out of 17 sectors have improved their working capital performance since 2016 and achieved an improvement in 2017. Rankings from best performance were: energy & utilities; industrial manufacturing; retail; transportation and logistics; forest, paper and packaging; healthcare; chemicals; engineering & construction; metals & mining; aerospace and defence; and consumer.
Traditionally, investors, academicians and research scholars were focusing on long term corporate finance decisions such as company valuation, dividends and capital structure. Importantly, the recent trend in corporate finance research is to focus on working capital practices. Thus, the current study sought to examine the impact of WCM on the financial performance of Indian pharmaceutical companies, which has been neglected by researchers. Moreover, this study aimed to analyze working capital among small, medium and large firms.
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