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What is Cash Conversion Cycle and how to calculate?

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Question added by Ahmed Abd Alwahab Awad Ibrahim , Chief Accounting , ICCDP
Date Posted: 2014/07/30
Fahad Hamid
by Fahad Hamid , Finance Manager , SNASCO Holding Group

Cash conversion cycle is the number of days it takes a company to convert its investment in inventory to cash. In short, it is a combination of following ratios:

  • Inventory turnover in days (ITO)
  • Receivables turnover in days (RTO)
  • Payables turnover in days (PTO)

Formula for calculation is ITO+RTO-PTO. This should always be used in conjuction with in dept analysis of all the ratios involved as there is a possibility that a conversion cycle can give a distorted view due to extra ordinary fluctuation in any of the ratios.

Hope this answers your query.

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by Deleted user

agreed with mr fahad

 

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