Improper management of short-term assets and liabilities is detrimental to small business success. Without enough working capital, a company may fail to meet operational expenses, and may struggle to finance its credit sales, and risks to meet its corporate strategies. An expert working capital expert saves organizations in the following ways:

Sustainable Working Capital Improvements: Working Capital consultants will use expert ratio analysis to monitor optimum assets use and control of liabilities. The consultant helps the company to leverage cash, cost, and service. They help a business to drive business growth due to increased working capital. He ensures that shifting operations meets changing market demands and implements long-term turnaround practices.

Inventory Management: Maintaining a sufficient inventory ensures that business operations do not suffer from overstocking, and saves the company from inventory shortages that deters meeting customer supplies needs. He monitors inventory turnover ratios, and plans for timely replenishment. He seeks to strike a balance between excessively high inventories that raise storage costs, and low inventories that lead to inadequacy in meeting customer orders. He ensures collaboration between management and finance departments to ensure optimum inventory turnover.

Ratio analysis and Interpretation: The expert uses accounting knowledge to interpret and determine the direction based on facts given by the working capital ratios. He demystifies the meaning behind working capital ratios, liquidity ratios, collection ratios, and inventory turnover ratios. He advises management on the vices of inability to convert current assets and liabilities into cash. He helps organizations realize the importance of adequate cash to meet operating expenses and short-term liabilities together with maintaining a low collection ratio.

Contingency Planning: However much a business may plan for smooth flow of operations processes, they cannot rule out unforeseen unfavorable occurrences that deters growth and sustainability. The consultant strategically plans to respond to contingencies. He performs shock analyses and evaluates various undesirable scenarios to forecast resultant growth changes. He determines clear courses of action and possible alternatives to reduce costs and ensures effective working capital management.

Capital Restructuring: External factors such as changing market conditions, takeover bids, or even bankruptcy may require modification of a company capital structure. The consultant does an evaluation and analyzes financial statements to determine ways of tapping growth opportunities. He carries out in-depth analysis of the company's capital structure to optimize working capital usage.

Performance Metrics: The consultant helps organizations use accurate numbers to enable them analyze the effect of changes in working capital. He sets clear performance metrics and identifies KPIs within the company to unlock ideal working capital productivity.

Working with Consultport’s highly experienced consultants helps your business to maintain sufficient cash flow, optimizing ratio optimal levels to ensure a healthy working capital management.