
Explore how operating activities drive cash flows in the cash conversion cycle, from inventory purchases to sales, with brief context on investing and financing sections of the cash flow statement.
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Explore the cash conversion cycle and its aliases, including cash gap and working capital cycle, and learn how days sales outstanding, days inventory outstanding, and days payable outstanding define it.
Discover days sales outstanding (dso) as the average time to collect cash from sales, including credit terms, and learn collection period from average accounts receivable and sales, with an example.
Improve cash flow by boosting inventory turnover and reducing days inventory outstanding through efficient management, as inventory movement from purchase to distribution drives the cash conversion cycle.
Learn how days inventory outstanding measures inventory velocity and how to calculate it using average inventory and COGS over a period to optimize cash conversion.
Learn how days payable outstanding affects cash flow by delaying supplier payments. Calculate DPO from average accounts payable, cost of goods sold, and period days, with an April example.
Analyze and interpret your cash conversion cycle to understand and improve cash flow and operations. Track days sales outstanding, days inventory outstanding, and days payable outstanding to manage liquidity.
Compare your cash conversion cycle to your own past performance and to similar businesses; understand its components—days sales outstanding, days inventory outstanding, and days payable outstanding—across industries and economic conditions.
Explore how working capital and operational liquidity shape cash flow, and why monitoring cash flow projections and the cash conversion cycle improves liquidity.
Explore how the cash conversion cycle relates to the net operating cycle and the operating cycle, defined by dso, dio, and dpo to show inventory-to-cash timing and supplier payments.
Push through and stay with it as you near the end of the cash conversion cycle for cash flow management.
Compute days sales outstanding for the cash conversion cycle by using total sales, not just credit sales, as cash sales should be reflected in the DSO calculation.
Compute cost of goods sold for the cash conversion cycle using consistent valuations, focusing on direct material costs (purchase price) for DIO and DPO, with examples like work in progress.
Explore how sampling frequency affects the accuracy of averages for accounts receivable, inventory, and accounts payable, balancing precision with the work required to collect data.
Take the cash conversion cycle baseline, then reduce DSO and DIO while increasing DPO through faster customer payments, tighter credit terms, and stronger accounts receivable management.
Bridge operations and finance to improve cash conversion cycle by integrating data across departments and prioritizing actions that boost cash flow performance.
Learn to confidently calculate the cash conversion cycle by analyzing accounts receivable, inventory, and accounts payable. Apply practical steps to improve cash flow and compare industry benchmarks.
Master the tools and principles of Cash Conversion Cycle for Cash Flow Management to have an "impact" on your business's operations - manufacturing, services, industrial operations and production.
Equip yourself to take a leading role in your workplace - defining and driving performance and business success.
Understand the fundamental dimensions of business operations and the core tools and essential approaches to improve them.
Become the authority in your team on improving the Cash Conversion Cycle for Cash Flow Management in your business
This MBA style course on "Cash Conversion Cycle" for Cash Flow Management" will prepare and empower you to make a real difference in your organization.
This course is for the new or aspiring manager, the ambitious engineer, high flying consultant, the hands-on planners and the practical business analysts.
Business operations come in all shapes and sizes with a host of unique challenges, but the fundamentals of running successful and efficient operations all contain the same fundamentals. Without a grasp of these, no manager can apply the core principles or techniques of business operations management, strategy, design and improvement.
Take control of your career and equip yourself to understand the real nature of business operations and how you can be the key to unlock their potential!
About Laurence Gartside
Laurence Gartside is a management consultant and business operations coach with a master’s degree in manufacturing, engineering and management from the University of Cambridge. He has consulted for and led numerous major improvement projects for companies around the world and is the founder of Rowtons Training.
Full Course Contents
1. Cash Flow Performance
Calculate your "Cash Conversion Cycle"
Measuring cash flow operations performance
Net Cash Flow vs Cash Conversion Cycle
Focus on Operating Cash Flow
Cash Gap vs Cash Cycle vs Working Capital Cycle
2. Calculating your Cash Conversion Cycle
How to Calculate the Cash Conversion Cycle
Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and Accounts Receivable Collection Period
Inventory management's impact on cash flow
Days Inventory Outstanding & inventory velocity
Calculating DIO with multiple products
Converting inventory turnover & inventory turns to DIO
Days Payable Outstanding & Accounts Payable Turnover Period
Example calculation of your Cash Conversion Cycle
3. Analyzing and Interpreting your Cash Flow
Analyzing your cashflow performance
Benchmark your cash flow
4. Related Concepts
Working Capital and Operational Liquidity
Operating Cycle and Net Operating Cycle
"Procure To Pay" (P2P) & "Order To Cash" (O2C)
5. What to Watch Out For
Common mistakes and pitfalls
"Credit sales" or "total sales" to calculate DSO
Calculating Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS)
Sampling frequency when calculating averages
6. Improving Your Cash Flow
Managing accounts receivables / payable
Inventory management to improve cashflow
7. Cash Flow for Operational Success
Improving the financial performance of your organization
Your operations and cashflow success
8. Conclusion
Your operations and cashflow success
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