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Cash Conversion Cycle Strategies To Avoid Business Failure, Brian Savino

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

At the end of 2018, the leading 2,000 U.S. and European companies had more than $2.5 trillion of cash unnecessarily tied up in working capital. The efficient management of working capital will lead to more cash invested in profitable projects leading to long term stability. This research will benefit chief financial officers (CFO) looking for strategies to manage working capital, which leads to higher profits and will help CFOs better manage economic downturns. Using the resource dependence theory as the conceptual framework, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore cash conversion cycle (CCC) strategies used by …