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INTRODUCTION
The concept of working capital is much confusing in the business circles. It is very unfortunate, there
is much disagreement among financiers, accountants, businessmen and economists as to the exact
meaning of the term working capital. According to a few, working capital means current assists. For
some others it is an excess of current assets over current liabilities. Some authorities prefer to call it
circulating capital in place of working capital.
MEANING OF WORKING CAPITAL:The term working capital is commonly used for the capital required for day-to-day working
in business concern. Such as for purchasing raw material for meeting day-to-day expenditure on
salaries, wages, rent rates advertising etc. but there is much disagreement among various financial
authorities as to the exact meaning of the term working capital
Nature of Industry
Seasonality of Operations
Production Policy
Market Conditions
Conditions of supply
Size of Business
Volume of Sales
Business Cycle
Profit Appropriation
OBJECTIVES OF STUDY :
To study overall position of HERITAGE.
To examine the changes in working capital of HERITAGE.
To study existing system of working capital management in HERITAGE.
To analyze financial performance of company with reference to its working capital
components.
To know the financial position of a company.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
PERIOD OF THE STUDY : the period of the study of these project of working capital
management on HERITAGE is two months.
COLLECTION OF DATA:
To achieve a fore said objective the following methodology has been adopted. The information
for this report has been collected through the Primary and Secondary sources.
1. Primary Data Sources
2. Secondary Data Sources
PRIMARY DATA SOURCES:
It is also called as first handed information the data is collected through the observation in the
organization and interviews with the accounts and the persons in the financial department. A part from
these, some information is collected through the seminars which were held by ECIL.
SECONDARY DATA SOURCES:
These secondary data is existing data which is collected by other sources, i.e. financial journals
annual reports of ECIL, website of ECIL and other publication of ECIL.
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
Quick ratio
Liquid Assets
Current Liabilities
Cash ratio
* 100
sales (turnover)
accounts recieveble
Sales (turnover )
inventory