Working Capital Analysis

Understand What Funds Your Daily Operations

Gain insight into the relationship between your current assets and liabilities, revealing opportunities to strengthen your cash position and operational flexibility.

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What This Analysis Brings You

Imagine understanding clearly how your inventory, receivables, and payables interact to create your cash position. Not just seeing the numbers, but genuinely grasping what they mean for your operational flexibility and where opportunities for improvement might exist.

This service provides comprehensive analysis of your working capital components, identifying patterns in how quickly inventory converts to sales, how efficiently you collect receivables, and how effectively you manage payment timing. You'll receive practical insights into what drives your cash needs and where adjustments might strengthen your position.

The confidence that comes from understanding these relationships affects how you approach operational decisions. When you know what influences your cash availability, you can make choices that support both immediate needs and longer-term financial health.

The Working Capital Challenge

Managing the balance between current assets and liabilities creates subtle pressure that many business owners feel but struggle to quantify. You might notice cash feels tighter than your profitability would suggest, or find yourself uncertain about whether your receivables collection or inventory levels are appropriate.

Perhaps you've experienced the frustration of having substantial sales yet feeling cash-constrained, wondering where the disconnect lies. Or maybe you sense your working capital management could improve but lack the specific analysis to identify where changes would help most.

This uncertainty affects operational decisions in ways that compound over time. When you don't clearly understand what drives your working capital needs, you might miss opportunities to optimize inventory, adjust payment terms, or improve collection processes in ways that would genuinely strengthen your cash position.

You deserve clarity about these fundamental operational dynamics. Your business merits analysis that reveals not just where you stand but where practical improvements might exist.

Our Analytical Approach

We examine the relationship between your current assets and liabilities systematically, calculating key working capital metrics and comparing them against industry benchmarks where relevant. This analysis reveals both how your working capital position compares to similar businesses and how it's trending over time.

Our approach goes beyond simple ratio calculation to explore what drives those numbers. We analyze inventory turnover patterns, receivables aging trends, and payables management practices, looking for specific areas where adjustments might improve your cash availability without compromising operational effectiveness.

The recommendations we provide focus on practical actions rather than theoretical improvements. We consider your specific business context, identifying changes that fit your operational reality while potentially strengthening your working capital position.

This analysis addresses the uncertainty many businesses face about their working capital management. Rather than guessing whether your practices are appropriate, you receive evidence-based assessment of where you stand and where opportunities might exist.

The Analysis Process

Data Gathering

We collect detailed information about your current assets and liabilities, including inventory levels, receivables aging, and payables schedules. This comprehensive data collection ensures our analysis reflects your actual working capital situation accurately.

Metric Calculation

We calculate standard working capital metrics including current ratio, quick ratio, days inventory outstanding, days sales outstanding, and days payables outstanding. These measurements provide objective assessment of your working capital position.

Benchmark Comparison

We compare your metrics against industry benchmarks where available, helping you understand how your working capital management relates to similar businesses. This context reveals whether your position reflects typical patterns or presents opportunities for optimization.

Pattern Identification

We analyze trends in your working capital components, identifying seasonal patterns, concerning developments, or positive improvements. Understanding these patterns helps you anticipate future cash needs and recognize emerging issues early.

Practical Recommendations

We provide specific suggestions for addressing identified opportunities, whether in inventory management, receivables collection, or payables optimization. These recommendations consider your operational context and focus on changes that could genuinely strengthen your position.

Throughout this analysis, you'll gain deeper understanding of what drives your cash availability. That insight often proves as valuable as any specific recommendations we provide.

Investment in Understanding

CHF 1,800
one-time analysis

This investment brings you comprehensive working capital analysis, industry benchmark comparison, trend identification, and practical recommendations tailored to your business situation.

What's Included

  • Comprehensive calculation of key working capital metrics and ratios
  • Detailed analysis of inventory turnover, receivables collection, and payables management
  • Comparison against relevant industry benchmarks and standards
  • Identification of trends and patterns in your working capital components
  • Specific recommendations for potential working capital optimization
  • Written report documenting findings, analysis, and suggested actions
  • Follow-up discussion to review findings and answer your questions

The value lies both in understanding your current working capital position and in identifying practical opportunities to strengthen your cash management practices.

Analysis That Reveals Opportunities

Our working capital analysis methodology follows established financial analysis frameworks, examining the components that drive operational cash needs. We calculate standard metrics used widely in financial management while adapting our interpretation to your specific business context.

Effectiveness shows through the insights gained and actions identified. Businesses often discover specific areas where modest adjustments could meaningfully improve cash availability, whether through inventory optimization, receivables collection improvements, or more strategic payables management.

The timeline for seeing benefits varies by what the analysis reveals and how quickly you can implement changes. Some recommendations produce relatively quick improvements, while others require longer-term adjustments to operational practices. Most businesses report the analysis itself provides immediate value through better understanding of their working capital dynamics.

We measure success not just by the analysis quality but by whether it genuinely helps you make better decisions about managing the resources that fund your daily operations.

Our Commitment to Useful Insight

We understand that engaging analytical services represents investment of both resources and time. You're sharing detailed operational information and expecting analysis that provides genuinely useful insight rather than generic observations.

If after receiving your working capital analysis you feel it doesn't provide the clarity or actionable recommendations you expected, we'll discuss those concerns directly. Our goal extends beyond completing calculations to helping you understand your working capital position in ways that support better management decisions.

Before committing, we're happy to discuss your situation, explain our analytical approach, and help you determine whether this service addresses what you're looking for. Some businesses benefit tremendously from this analysis, while others might need different types of financial insight.

We want you to feel confident this analysis will deliver value appropriate to your investment, not uncertain about whether it fits your actual needs.

Moving Forward

Engaging working capital analysis begins with a conversation about your current situation and what you hope to learn. We discuss your business operations, any specific concerns about cash management, and what would make the analysis most valuable for you.

If the service seems appropriate, we arrange data collection and begin the analytical work. The process typically takes two to three weeks from initial data gathering to delivering the complete analysis report.

We then schedule a follow-up discussion to review findings, answer your questions, and explore how the recommendations might fit into your operational planning. This conversation often proves as valuable as the written report itself, as it allows us to clarify insights and discuss implementation considerations.

The path forward starts simply. Reach out to discuss whether working capital analysis might provide the insight you're looking for.

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Let's discuss your working capital situation and explore whether this analysis might reveal opportunities to strengthen your cash management.

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