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Rotation du capital circulant et rentabilité

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  • Hugues Bertrand
  • Alain Fauqueur

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[eng] Rotation of working capital and profitabilite. The purpose of this study is to analyse working capital in terms of productive input (labour, wages, consumed goods, prices, length of rotation, etc...), and not only with references to the apparent effects of that content, i.e. stock quantifies that are multiplied by prices.. A number of usefull, conclusions for short and medium term analysis can be singled out. The productive input of the stocks makes it possible to associate the latter in a dynamic manner to the production, distribution and financing operations ; it allows as well to formalise as many relationships with these operations as there are schemes of price formation.. The emphasis given to the temporal aspects of the process makes it possible to single out and formalize the link between the intuitive chronological time-span and the actual macroeconomic amount of time that the rotation of capital requires. Such an approach also makes it possible to study the meaning of the relationship between profitability and growth with respect to the period of observation. The « micro-macro » transposition tvhich cannot be explained by a mere généralisation or combination of individual factors alone, can provide interesting results particularly regards the formation of prices araising from the fragmentation of capital into autonomous quantifies.. According to the study, some of the possible applications suggested by the results are a better understanding of stocks appréciation and the availability of an instrument for forecasting stocks variations. [fre] L'objectif de cette étude est d'analyser le capital circulant dans son contenu productif (travail, salaires, matières consommées, prix, durée de rotation...), et non plus dans le résultat apparent de son contenu comme, par exemple, des quantités en stocks multipliées par des prix.. Il s'en dégage un certain nombre de résultats utiles pour l'analyse du court-moyen terme : le contenu productif des stocks permet de relier ceux-ci de façon dynamique aux opérations de production, de répartition et de financement, et de formaliser autant de liaisons avec ces opérations que de modes de formation des prix retenus.. L'attention portée à la dimension temporelle permet de distinguer et de formaliser le lien entre la durée chronologique intuitive, et la durée effective de rotation du capital. Elle permet aussi d'examiner le sens des liaisons entre rentabilité et crois­sance, en fonction de la période d'observation retenue.. Le passage « micro-macro », qui ne saurait provenir de la simple généralisation ou agrégation des données individuelles, livre d'intéressants résultats, notamment sur la formation des prix, provenant du fractionnement du capital en entités autonomes. Parmi les applications possibles de ces résultats, l'étude propose une meilleure appréhension du problème de l'appréciation sur stocks, et fournit un instrument de prévision de la variation de stocks.

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  • Hugues Bertrand & Alain Fauqueur, 1978. "Rotation du capital circulant et rentabilité," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 29(2), pages 291-331.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_1978_num_29_2_408385
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    1. Antoine Delarue, 1982. "L'insertion dans le temps des processus de production et son impact sur la répartition et la productivité," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 33(1), pages 71-106.
    2. Seppecher, Pascal, 2014. "Pour une macroéconomie monétaire dynamique et complexe," Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, Association Recherche et Régulation, vol. 16.

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