• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 5th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.502-506
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• 2013

The cash flow forecasting is normally done by contractors in construction industry at early stages of the project for contractual decisions. The decision making in such situations involve uncertainty about future cash flows and assessment of working capital requirements gains more importance in projects constrained by cash. The traditional approach to assess the working capital requirements is deterministic in and neglects the uncertainty. This paper presents an alternate approach to assessment of working capital requirements for contractor based on fuzzy set theory by considering the uncertainty and ambiguity involved at payment periods. Statistical methods are used to deal with the uncertainty for working capital curves. Membership functions of the fuzzy sets are developed based on these statistical measures. Advantage of fuzzy peak working capital requirements is demonstrated using peak working capital requirements curves. Fuzzy peak working capital requirements curves are compared with deterministic curves and the results are analyzed. Fuzzy weighted average methodology is proposed for the assessment of peak working capital requirements.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.465-474
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• 2022

Using structural equation modeling, the study aims to investigate the causal relationship between working capital policies and working capital indicators on firm performance, including profitability and market value (SEM). The samples of 381 firms were selected from various industries listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) from 2016 to 2020. The results showed that 1) there is an effect of working capital policies on profitability and market value; 2) there is an effect of working capital indicators on profitability and market value and 3) there is the effect of profitability on market value. From the results, it is suggested that conservative working capital investment policy (CIP) and conservative working capital financing policy (CFP) affect a company's performance in the Thailand context. In addition, shortening the cash conversion cycle (CCC) should be applied in management to increase profitability by reducing the receivables collection period (RCP) and inventory conversion period (ICP) while increasing the payables deferral period (PDP). The practical implications of the study provide the evidence that meeting the dues according to short CCC management can represent healthy liquidity in cash flow that helps gain investor confidence and the investment interest that further increases the market value.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.249-260
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• 2022

The objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of working capital policy and strategy on a firm's performance including profitability and market value. By applying One-Sample T-Test, working capital investment and financing policies were classified into the three sub-policies and strategies: aggressive, moderate, and conservative, unlike previous studies using two sub- policies and strategies. The results showed that the SET-listed companies in all seven industry sectors primarily adopted an aggressive working capital investment policy and a conservative working capital financing policy, so-called as moderate working capital management strategy (MWS), at 49.40%. While the firms adopted and conservative working capital management strategy (CWS), 45.70%, followed by the aggressive working capital management strategy (AWS), at 4.90%. When examining the impacts among three-sub policies and strategies on a firm's performance, it was found that the conservative working capital financing policy led to the highest profitability and market value in all industry sectors. The findings also revealed that the aggressive strategy has no impact on a firm's performance in terms of profitability and market value.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2016

본 연구는 한국거래소의 유가증권시장에 상장된 기업들을 대상으로 운전자본관리가 기업성과에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 운전자본과 기업성과는 각각 매출액 대비 순운전자본의 비율과 총자산영업이익률로 측정한 변수를 이용하였다. 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 전체 표본을 대상으로 실시한 분석에서 운전자본과 기업성과 간에 유의한 관계를 확인할 수 없었다. 둘째, 운전자본이 음(-)인 집단을 대상으로 실시한 분석결과, 운전자본의 계수가 유의적인 +0.013로 나타나 운전자본이 기업성과에 유의한 양(+)의 영향을 미침을 확인하였다. 반면, 운전자본이 양(+)인 집단의 경우, 운전자본의 계수가 유의한 -0.016으로 추정되어 운전자본과 기업성과 간에 유의적인 음(-)의 관계가 존재함을 보였다. 이러한 결과는 최근 해외연구에서 밝혀진 바와 같이 국내 기업에서도 운전자본의 적정보유수준이 존재할 수 있음을 시사한다. 셋째, 재무적 제약을 고려한 운전자본과 기업성과 간의 관계를 분석한 결과, 재무적 제약이 운전자본과 기업성과의 관계에 별다른 영향을 미치지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 재무적 제약을 지닌 기업과 그렇지 않은 기업 간에 특별히 다른 운전자본정책이 실행되지 못하고 있음을 시사한다. 그동안 국내 상장기업을 대상으로 운전자본과 기업성과의 관계를 다룬 연구가 거의 존재하지 않는다는 점을 고려할 때 본 연구는 향후 관련 연구의 활성화에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2013

This study investigated how family capital was associated with the working memory of young school-aged children from immigrant families in the United States using the New Immigrant Survey. Family capital was identified as economic, human, cultural, and social capital, and children's working memory was measured by the Digit Span scores. Poisson regression analysis was used for examining the sample of 428 children from the New Immigrant Survey. Results indicated that cultural capital within the home was positively associated with the working memory of young school-aged children whereas economic, human, and social capital was not. Implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2016

Firms can use working capital management which is one of the essential determinants to influence their profitability. The main theme of present study is to investigate the relationship between working capital management and profitability of Tobacco Industry of Pakistan. This study is based on secondary data collected from financial statements of selected companies of Tobacco Industry of Pakistan for the period of 2005-2014. For data analysis, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Correlation analysis is used to check the relationship between the variables, while multiple regression analysis is used to examine the effects of working capital management on profitability of firms. The result reveals that there is a strong negative relationship between variables of working capital management and profitability of Tobacco Industry of Pakistan. This means that as the cash conversion cycle increases, it will lead to declining of firm profitability and managers can create a positive value for shareholders by reducing the cash conversion cycle at optimal level. The study concludes that managers can create value for shareholders by managing the working capital well designed and implemented, and by keeping each components of it at optimal level.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.228-234
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• 2020

Background: The concept of social capital has its focus on cooperative relations in the workplace. This study investigates the association between social capital and sickness absence among workers in 41 work groups in the Danish dairy industry and examines the possible effects of an intervention on social capital in the workplace on sickness absence. Methods: A sample of 791 dairy workers working in 41 work groups that participated in an intervention study on social capital filled in a questionnaire on four subtypes of social capital, and social capital scores from individual participants were aggregated to the level of work groups. Sickness absence was measured at the level of work groups in company registers as the two-year average percentage of working time lost to sickness absence. Group-level associations between social capital and sickness absence were analyzed using multilevel linear regression analysis. Analyses were adjusted for age, gender, group size, and random effects at the workplace level. Results: We found statistically significant associations between social capital within work groups, social capital in relation to the immediate manager, and social capital toward the workplace as a whole on the one side and sickness absence on the other side. We found no support for any effects of the intervention on sickness absence. Conclusion: The work group level of social capital is associated with the work group level of sickness absence. However, the intervention to enhance group-level social capital had no effect on reducing sickness absence in the intervention group.

• 융합경영연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.18-28
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• 2014

In this research we investigate the effect return on assets, return on equity, profit margin and earnings per share on working capital management. Current ratio and quick ratio used as proxies for working capital management. The research sample includes 451 year -firm of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) listed companies for period 2007-10. The multiple linear regressions were applied to test the research hypotheses. The results showed that, return on assets and earnings per share have a negative impact on working capital management. The results also show that earnings per share and profit margin positively associated with the firm performance.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2020

This paper investigates the impact of working capital management on the firm's profitability. The research sample includes 119 non-financial listed companies on Vietnam stock market over a period of 9 years from 2010 to 2018. Two statistical approaches include Ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effects model (FEM) are employed to address econometric issues and to improve the accuracy of the regression coefficients. The empirical results show the negative and significant impacts of the working capital management, which measured by cash conversion cycle (CCC) and three components of the CCC including accounts receivable turnover in days (ARD), inventory turnover in days (INVD), and accounts payable turnover in days (APD) on the firm's profitability measured by return on assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q. It implies that firms can increase profitability by keeping the optimization of the working capital management measured by the CCC, which includes shortening the time to collect money from clients, accelerating inventory flow and hold the low payment time to creditors. Besides, the profitability of firms was impacted by the sale growth rate, firm size, leverage, and age. Therefore, this paper provides a new insight to managers on how to improve the firm's profitability with working capital management.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2020

본 연구는 우리나라 종합병원을 대상으로 경영의 위험요인이 운전자본 관리에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 자료는 의료기관회계정보공시 시스템을 이용하여 271개 종합병원 3개연도(2016년, 2017년, 2018년)의 회계정보를 이용하였다. 도입변수는 종속변수로 운전자본 수준과 현금순환주기, 독립변수로 운영위험과 시장위험, 통제변수로 운전자금 구성요인(현금, 매출채권, 재고자산, 매입채무)을 선정하였다. 연구결과, 우리나라 종합병원들은 운영위험이 낮을수록 운전자본 수준은 높았으며, 운전자본 결정에는 운영위험, 현금, 재고자산, 매입채무가 작용하는 것으로 확인되었다. 그리고 시장위험(의료이익률)이 낮을수록 현금순환주기가 높았다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 의료기관들도 운영의 특수성을 고려하여 경기대응능력을 갖출 수 있도록 운전자본 결정요인으로 확인된 운영위험, 현금, 재고자산, 매입채무의 적절한 관리방안에 대한 검토의 필요성이 제기된다.