Lastly and most significantly, the importance that
management places on cash and working capital.
Every company needs cash to run their day-to-day
operations, but not every company attributes good
working capital management to improved and
more reliable cash flows. Too often management
turns to banks or investors to fund their working
capital rather than finding ways of generating
more free cash flows themselves or reducing the
funding requirements by becoming more working
capital efficient. This need for cash goes far beyond
working capital funding.