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Optimization of the company's cash flow

This book is about the company's treasuries and financial management, more specifically; it shows how a company can manage its treasury in an efficient and short way.

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(b) The Positive Effect.<br />

Swelling <strong>of</strong> <strong>cash</strong> usually causes a reflex <strong>of</strong> investment. It may be that <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> liquidity creates from scratch<br />

<strong>the</strong> decision to invest, or allows investments. The contractor may seems to grasp all possible investment<br />

opportunities, once its <strong>cash</strong> situation is evolving favorably.<br />

2 - THE EFFECTS OF INVESTMENT ON THE CASH FLOW.<br />

Any investment is a potential source <strong>of</strong> revenue and pr<strong>of</strong>its that will swell <strong>the</strong> <strong>flow</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>cash</strong> available to <strong>the</strong> company.<br />

2.1 - The effects <strong>of</strong> investment on <strong>the</strong> income <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firm.<br />

The investment increases <strong>the</strong> production capacity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firm, and, all o<strong>the</strong>r things being equal, its production and<br />

turnover.<br />

This increase is less proportional because it is always a part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> investment that is intended to cover <strong>the</strong><br />

depreciation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> capital assets. The template 'benefit-cost-volume', or neutral, leads to <strong>the</strong> operating leverage<br />

effect that provides <strong>the</strong> foundations for a policy <strong>of</strong> investment designed not only based on <strong>the</strong> imperative <strong>of</strong><br />

pr<strong>of</strong>itability, but also on <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> imperative <strong>of</strong> liquidity. You can refine by proposing a neutral to <strong>cash</strong> more<br />

directly linked to <strong>the</strong> <strong>cash</strong> position <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> company.<br />

(a) Operational leverage and <strong>cash</strong> <strong>flow</strong> value.<br />

If we admit <strong>the</strong> three situations <strong>of</strong> IWACO as follows:<br />

The company is fully automated to a higher fixed costs. Thanks to this automation variable costs increase slowly. The<br />

importance <strong>of</strong> overhead costs is that <strong>the</strong> company reached neutral to a higher activity than TENOR and GOCOM.<br />

Figure n°12 : Death-Center <strong>of</strong> Tenor<br />

Figure n°13 : Death-Center <strong>of</strong> Gocom<br />

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