Optimization of the company's cash flow

4. THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT:
The purchasing department was useful for this study in too many ways. The general contribution was on the level
of gathering information on the sets and basis of working for this company, in other terms, how does the company
make profit from selling. This department was basically the key for making this study an exact one for the company
seeing that the financial decision was taken by the financial direction, but then the translation of these decision
have been taken and done by this department on the real field. Therefore, the purchasing department represents
for sure a first source of the company.
Generally, the collection of information for this study could’ve be done on too many levels and from too many
departments but it all depends on how long and large this study could’ve be taken. Yet, from my point of view and
because of the study should be done in a straight and direct way to achieve exactly how the optimization of a
treasury could be done, It was based on fore major sources of fore major departments: Financial Direction, Treasury
(Cash-Management), Accounting and Purchasing department.
CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST PART:
Reading from books and all this literature allowed us to make our own point of view of the situation of this
company’s treasury and to know all the objectives and mains to know how to optimize the cash inside the company.
And also, this first part gives us an idea on how to manage the cash flows of the company by controlling the treasury
of the firm without changing the main stable variables of the company, or going through a new loan or line credit.
We’ve learned from this reading also that to manage a firm’s treasury doesn’t mean only managing the external
flows that a company can have from doing its activity of buying and selling but also by taking control of the inside
flows of the company that are most of the time forgotten, not well managed or else.
More than that, we’ve got enlightened by this reading to know the right path to follow during the practical analysis
in order to achieve the optimization of the treasury.
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