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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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Investment and its financing,<br />

Training and <strong>the</strong> allocation <strong>of</strong> <strong>cash</strong> <strong>flow</strong><br />

Control <strong>the</strong> variation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> value <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> currency.<br />

We <strong>the</strong>refore meet <strong>the</strong> objectives <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> financial function:<br />

Ensure <strong>the</strong> collection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> resources needed for <strong>the</strong> operation and development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firm<br />

Control <strong>the</strong> allocation <strong>of</strong> funds and<br />

Results policy<br />

The imperative <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>itability originates from <strong>the</strong> cost <strong>of</strong> holding capital. Any applied fund, regardless <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nature,<br />

fixed or circulating involves immobilization <strong>of</strong> funds, own or borrowed for a shorter or longer duration. Thou, any<br />

capital funds has costs: explicit costs whenever <strong>the</strong> company needs to service <strong>the</strong> corresponding capital providers<br />

and opportunity costs to <strong>the</strong> product that <strong>the</strong> company could have made <strong>the</strong> alternative employment. The<br />

entrepreneurial activity <strong>the</strong>refore has meaning only if it earns its jobs sufficient resources to cover its costs. In o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

words, pr<strong>of</strong>itability is <strong>the</strong> condition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> liquidity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> company. Pr<strong>of</strong>itability and liquidity vary in <strong>the</strong> same<br />

direction.<br />

The detention <strong>of</strong> significant liquidity, not more than a positive working capital, is not a guarantee <strong>of</strong> safety. Being<br />

insolvent means controlling all aspects <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> evolution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> financial position and results in a simultaneous<br />

maximizing pr<strong>of</strong>itability. Thus <strong>the</strong> optimal <strong>cash</strong> management businesses leads to <strong>the</strong> syn<strong>the</strong>sis <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> financial<br />

problems facing <strong>the</strong> firm. This global view <strong>of</strong> financial activity leads to a system approach to <strong>cash</strong>.<br />

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