Case summary:
Chief financing officer of Company RR, a speciality coffee manufacturer, is re-thinking about its working capital policy and wants to re-new its line of credit and it wouldn’t ready to build payroll, probably forcing the company out of business.
The scare has forced the company to examine carefully about each component of working capital to make sure it is required, and decide whether the goal is to determine the line of credit are often eliminated entirely.
Previously, it has done little to look at assets and mainly because of poor communication among business functions and the decisions about working capital cannot be made at vacuum.
To discuss: Ways of adopting a financing policy by Company RR either a more aggressive or more conservation one, when it tries to match the maturities of its assets and liabilities.
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