The Strategic Operations and Consequences of Working Capital Management in the Financial Service Industry

Authors

  • Enimola Henry Bamidele Federal Polytechnic Offa
  • Enimola Richard Taiwo
  • Ikhu-Omoregbe Sunday

Keywords:

Working Capital, Illiquidity, Ratios, Current Asset, Current Liabilities

Abstract

This paper examines the strategic operations and consequences of working capital management in the financial service industry. The aim of this paper is to theoretically derive significant factors related to working capital management which have an influence on profitability and liquidity and test these in a sample of one Nigeria bank, First bank of Nigeria (FBN) operating in Nigeria and one United Kingdom bank, Barclays Bank. The quantitative investigation consists of the statistical analysis

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2015-01-01

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Bamidele, E. H., Taiwo, E. R., & Sunday, I.-O. (2015). The Strategic Operations and Consequences of Working Capital Management in the Financial Service Industry. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 19(1), 63–80. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/2814

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2015)

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