Working capital management

While working capital management might seem like common sense, unfortunately it is not common practice. At PwC, we see it as a simple concept made difficult by the complexity of the business world around it.

Your challenges

If you’re like many companies, the global nature of businesses today and the diversity of systems, processes, organisations and measures of performance leave you with many questions about:

• reducing your level of debt by releasing cash from working capital
• the efficient utilisation of working capital
• achieving sustainable reductions in working capital
• receivables growing disproportionately to sales
• growing volumes of past due and unrecoverable debt
• a lack of visibility on inventory levels

How we can help you

Most companies can set free significant amounts of cash locked up in operations and sustainably increase their profitability and company value by managing working capital more actively.

The graph below shows a few concrete ways leading companies have turned their working capital challenges around to benefit their entire business.

At PwC, we have built up extensive experience and comprehensive tools to service your working capital needs and fine-tune business performance. We will work with you as a partner to sustainably decrease your working capital and improve liquidity and return on capital employed by:

• performing short-term cash flow reviews
• identifying ‘quick wins’ in improving working capital
• mixing deep functional and industry expertise to support management in the development of initiatives
• developing implementation plans and support to realise sustainable long-term opportunities