In addition to fundamental variables, we also investigate the role of corporate governance structures for the amount of cash holdings.While most of our corporate governance variables do not have a significant impact on the cash ratio, our results indicate that managerial shareholdings affect cash holdings in two ways. First, a higher percentage of managerial ownership reduces a firm’s cash ratio. Second, however, the cash ratio increases when the absolute value of managerial shareholdings in a firm increases. The two opposing effects can be interpreted as an alignment effect and a risk-aversion effect, respectively. Furthermore, a firm’s cash ratio is higher if the CEO simultaneously serves as the COB, suggesting increased problems from an agency perspective under CEO duality.