Cash conversion cycle
The length of time between a firm's purchase of inventory and the receipt of cash
from accounts receivable.
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cash conversion cycle
elapsed time, usually expressed in days, from the outlay of cash for raw materials to the receipt of cash after the finished goods have been sold. Because a profit is built into the sales, the term earnings cycle is also used.
Cash conversion cycle
Definition 1.
The length of time between a firm's purchase of inventory and the receipt of cashfrom accounts receivable.
Definition of
cash conversion cycle
Accounting
period between buying materials and selling product the time between the acquisition of a raw material and the receipt of payment for the finished product.
Cash Conversion Cycle = Days Inventory Outstanding
+ Days Sales Outstanding
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Cash Conversion Cycle - Length of time required for a business to convert raw materials into finished goods, finished goods into sales, and accounts receivable into cash.
Cash Conversion Cycle
The time required to convert raw materials into finished goods, finished goods into sales, and sales into received payments from customers. In a retail business, it is directly related to inventory turnover.
Cash Conversion Cycle - CCC
A metric that expresses the length of time, in days, that it takes for a company to convert resource inputs into cash flows.
A shorter cash conversion cycle is better, other things being equal. It is possible for the cash conversion cycle to be negative, this is most likely for certain retailers who buy on credit, sell for cash and have a high stock turnover.
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cash conversion cycle The length of time between the purchase of raw materials and the collection... cash cow A Cash-Cow is a business or product which generates a steady, dependable flow... cash credit A short-term cash loan to a firm.
The Working Capital cycle, or Cash Conversion cycle as it is also called is usually expressed in terms of the number of days. This figure is the average time that it takes to turn investment in books into cash and profit.
Working Capital Working capital finances the cash conversion cycle of a business (the time required to convert raw materials into finished goods, finished goods into sales and accounts receivable into cash).
Hence, it is also known as the 'Cash Conversion Cycle'. However, if raw materials are bought on credit, then the cash conversion cycle is shorter than the operating cycle by the period of credit available.
As such, working capital finances day-to-day business operation (called the CASH CONVERSION CYCLE), allowing bills to be paid while awaiting payment of cash for sales.
Working capital finances a business's cash conversion cycle--period needed to convert raw materials into finished goods, finished goods into sales, and accounts receivable into cash.
Commonly, a supplier will ship a product, issue an invoice, and collect payment later, which creates a cash conversion cycle, ...
The actual physical commodity, as distinguished from a futures contract.
Cash conversion cycle
The length of time between a firm's purchase of inventory and the receipt of cash from accounts receivable.
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 See also: Expense, Bills, Cash cycle, Disbursement, Operating cycle
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