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Four Ways to Make Working Capital Work

Working Capital Management guide

by Robin Bergholm, Head of Working Capital Management, Wholesale Banking, and Joonas Junttila, Global Business Developer, Trade Finance Sales Development, Nordea

Organisations can improve their working capital by focusing on four key areas, according to new research by Nordea. We studied working capital management (WCM) across 403 Nordic companies to find out how they are performing and how they are making working capital work for them.

WCM is important to every business — it can help you improve cash flow, enjoy a better re-turn on invested capital and reduce funding costs. But achieving effective WCM can be challenging.

To find out how the Nordics are faring, we analysed the key financial metrics of 403 companies over the period 2008–2013. Using publicly available sources, we then took a deeper dive into the measures implemented by 15 corporates that significantly improved their days working capital (DWC) to understand how they got it right.