Impact of Working Capital on Profitability and Market Capitalization of the Indian Companies: A Study and Sectorial Analysis
Keywords:
profitability, capitalization, sectorial analysis, capital managementAbstract
Working Capital Management is the key area for sectors and companies in the economy. In the past there had been various researches elaborating about the impact of Working Capital on an organization. Looking into these criteria’s it is important to understand the relationship between working capital, profitability and the market capitalization of a firm. Convenience sampling method is applied to collect the secondary data collected from annual reports of the companies which are further used for data analysis to find out the relation of 3 important parameters. In this research, we would establish the relation of working capital with various other factors statistically.
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