Working Capital

Optimal working capital management can positively effect on the Firm performance, but this relationship can be affected by major characteristics of the firm, making an important subject for research. This research investigates the moderating role of firm characteristics on the relation between working capital management and financial performance of the firms listed in TSE during 2008 – 2017 period. Based on existing researches, three characters are considered as moderating variables in this research include firm size, debt ratio, and Governmental ownership. Financial performance and working capital management are measured using return on assets (ROA) and cash conversion cycle (CCC), respectively. We use from multivariate regression model with panel data for test of research hypotheses. The Results of this study show that, firm size affects the Relation between CCC (as a measure of working capital management) and ROA (as a measure of firm performance). However, debt ratio and Governmental ownership don’t any significant effect on the relationship between working capital management and financial performance of firms

Companies have access to a variety of financial resources to implement available profitable investment projects, to settle overdue debts, to increase working capital, and to pay dividends to shareholders. These resources include cash from operating activities and the sale of assets (as intra-organizational sources of financing), borrowing loans from the bank, issuance of bonds, and issuance of new shares (as outside the organization sources of financing). Financing and its effects on the returns and risk of the company choose sources that minimize financing costs. Then, to prioritize the parameters, the hierarchical method, Topsis, and ANP were used. The results of this study indicated that the factors of efficiency, cost, sustainability, being operational, fairness, and transparency have been the most important criteria for choosing the financing method, as well as forming sub-consortia, receiving facilities, issuing participation bonds, establishing investment companies, presence in the securities market, creating a shareholder plan, and finally attracting foreign capital have been identified as financing methods. Also, the transparency of the financing method in the surveyed companies to identify the appropriate financing method had the least importance.

Companies have access to a variety of financial resources to implement available profitable investment projects, to settle overdue debts, to increase working capital, and to pay dividends to shareholders Correct decision making and the ability of companies to determine the appropriate financial resources are the main factors of company success. The effects of financing on the company's return and risk are the most important goals that management should pay attention to when choosing a financing method, and select resources that minimize financing costs. In this research, first, to identify financing methods and also the criteria for selecting the appropriate financing method, the fuzzy Delphi method has been used. Then, the AHP method was used to prioritize the parameters. The results of this study showed that the factors of efficiency, cost, sustainability, operationality, fairness, and transparency are the most important criteria for selecting financing methods in gas companies and also forming subsidiary consortia, receiving facilities, issuing participation bonds, creating an investing companies, presence in the stock market, creating a plan as a shareholder, have been identified as financing methods.

The main objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between working capital managementand the profitability of banks in the Iranian capital market. To achieve this objective, financial data from thirteen banks have been used in a balanced panel format over the period from 2013 to 2021. The dependent variable, profitability, includes two profitability indicators: Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE). working capital management is measured using the cash ratio and Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC). In this research, hypothesis testing has been carried out using fixed-effect regressions and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimations. The results indicate that there is no significant relationship between the cash ratioand profitability, while there is a positive and significant relationship between the CCC and profitability