Cash Management strategies relationship with the operating results of Ecuadorian SMEs: Case of Construction and Transport sectors

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Joysy Cueva
Dolores Rojas

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This research focuses on analyzing strategies for cash management and its relationship with the operating results of companies in the Ecuadorian Transport and Construction sectors, during the 2012-2017 period. The sample is constituted with financial information of the 32726 construction sector companies and 46140 transport sector companies organized as data. A descriptive and correlation analysis is performed. The results determined that the period of inventory rotation, average collection period, average payment period, cash conversion cycle, indebtedness, and cash flows have a significant correlation with profitability indicators, without neglecting that improvements must be made. the efficiency in some strategies such as the inventory, collection and payment cycle. The daily activities of these companies depend on efficient cash management in the short term, for which companies that want to improve their profitability should pay more attention to the key strategies for this management.

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Cueva, J., & Rojas, D. (2019). Cash Management strategies relationship with the operating results of Ecuadorian SMEs: Case of Construction and Transport sectors . 593 Digital Publisher CEIT, 4(5-1), 39-48. https://doi.org/10.33386/593dp.2019.5-1.128
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IV Encuentro Nacional de Finanzas Fintech y Cooperativismo

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