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What's capital and what's working capital?

I won't talk about the theoretical definition of Capital, I'll just explain the basic idea about both, Capital is the major amount of assets has been transferred to company's acquisition, even if not delivered, or used, in any form ( Cash, Assets in different company, Machines ... etc).

Working capital has to meaning actually:-

 The needed fund to operate for one operation cycle, like in industrial sector, to produce for one period according to your plan, and only people who are setting new business use this term, for planning for new company, because after this it becomes outcome from financial analysis as below.

  The exact amount used in specific period to cover the company main activities, which means if you have a big company which work in specific industry, cars for example, but yet it has too much money in it's account, and many investments in other companies, also spent in social and sports activities, financial Statement users  always need to see need to see if the company actually can cover it's short term commitments or not, and that comes from the known equation (  current assets - current liabilities ) and this is an important indicator to the companies status and investing decision.

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Question added by Ossama Al-Arabi , Account Advisor , Raya
Date Posted: 2016/10/18
AUGUSTINUS NORBERT TSHIKOMBA
by AUGUSTINUS NORBERT TSHIKOMBA , operator level logistic distrution at DISPATCH Departiment , meatco of namibia

Working capital is a financial metric that is the difference between a company's curent assets and current liabilities. As a financial metric, working capital helps plan for future needs and ensure the company has enough cash and cash equivalents meet short-term obligations, such as unpaid taxes and short-term debt.

FATEH BOUCHENE
by FATEH BOUCHENE , institut d'emission , banque centrale d'algerie

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Syed Gazi Hussain
by Syed Gazi Hussain , Sr Accountant , Creative Marketing & Advertising Solution Ltd

Working capital is the amount of a company's current assets minus the amount of its current liabilities.you will get the working capital.

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