September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
6h 44m
English
Strategic perspective
Financial perspective
Key performance question this indicator helps to answer
How well are we doing at maintaining a healthy cash position?
A main reason why companies get into difficulties is not necessarily a lack of sales but the company running out of money in the bank (cash) to pay for the day-to-day costs of the business. An old business saying is that ‘cash is king’. With this recognition, a number of KPIs have been developed to assess a company’s cash position, generally known as ‘cash flow’. The cash conversion cycle (CCC) is such a measure.
The CCC metric assesses the length of time, in days, that it takes for an organisation to convert resource ...
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