The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia

This study investigates the effect of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia using a sample of 66 SME manufacturing firms covering from 2006 until 2012. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression is used to estimate the relationship between the independent and dependent variable...

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Main Author: Rahima, Abbas Ali
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description This study investigates the effect of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia using a sample of 66 SME manufacturing firms covering from 2006 until 2012. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression is used to estimate the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The results show that, there is negative relationship between working capital management measures i.e. days account receivables (DAR), inventory turnover in days (ITID), and cash conversion cycle (CCC) and SMEs profitability proxies i.e. return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) except for net operating profit (NOP) which is having positive effect with CCC. Furthermore, the study shows that there is positive relationship between days account payables (DAP) and SMEs profitability measured by (ROA and ROE) but having a negative relation with NOP. The results imply that Profitability of SME manufacturing firms depends upon effective working capital management. Therefore, this study suggests that SME manufacturing companies can improve their profitability by managing working capital properly.
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spelling my.uum.etd-46012021-04-05T01:01:14Z https://etd.uum.edu.my/4601/ The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia Rahima, Abbas Ali HG Finance This study investigates the effect of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia using a sample of 66 SME manufacturing firms covering from 2006 until 2012. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression is used to estimate the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The results show that, there is negative relationship between working capital management measures i.e. days account receivables (DAR), inventory turnover in days (ITID), and cash conversion cycle (CCC) and SMEs profitability proxies i.e. return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) except for net operating profit (NOP) which is having positive effect with CCC. Furthermore, the study shows that there is positive relationship between days account payables (DAP) and SMEs profitability measured by (ROA and ROE) but having a negative relation with NOP. The results imply that Profitability of SME manufacturing firms depends upon effective working capital management. Therefore, this study suggests that SME manufacturing companies can improve their profitability by managing working capital properly. 2015 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://etd.uum.edu.my/4601/1/s815149.pdf text en https://etd.uum.edu.my/4601/2/s815149_abstract.pdf Rahima, Abbas Ali (2015) The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Utara Malaysia.
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The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia
title The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia
title_full The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia
title_fullStr The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia
title_short The effects of working capital management on SMEs profitability in Malaysia
title_sort effects of working capital management on smes profitability in malaysia
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