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How does working capital management affect the profitability of Indian companies?

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  • Nufazil Altaf
  • Farooq Ahmad Shah

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between working capital management (WCM) and firm profitability for a sample of 437 non-financial Indian companies. Design/methodology/approach - The study is based on secondary financial data obtained from Capitaline database, pertaining to a period of ten years. This study employs two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) techniques to arrive at results. Findings - The results of the study confirm the inverted U-shape relationship between WCM and firm profitability. In addition, the authors also found that the firms should complete its CCC on an average by 63 days. Originality/value - Unlike prior studies that found a linear relationship between WCM and firm profitability. This study provides newer evidence for an inverted U-shaped relation between investment in working capital and firm profitability in India. In addition, this study uses GMM to control the potential problems of endogeneity.

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  • Nufazil Altaf & Farooq Ahmad Shah, 2018. "How does working capital management affect the profitability of Indian companies?," Journal of Advances in Management Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 15(3), pages 347-366, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jamrpp:jamr-06-2017-0076
    DOI: 10.1108/JAMR-06-2017-0076
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