... such as return on capital and cash flow. The impact is reduced overall cost generated by leveraging the financial strength of the entire supply chain. During economic downturns and times of tight credit proactively managing financials across the supply chain may be the only way some suppliers remain afloat...

... bridging the processes into and out of the firm. In accounting, the measurement of liquidity assesses the firm’s ability to cover obligations with cash flows (Gallinger, 1997; Lancaster et al., 1998). Corporate liquidity can be examined from two distinct dimensions: static or dynamic views...

... compared with well‐known rules which are developed for the two objectives taken individually. Furthermore, the iterative algorithm improves the performance of all tested rules significantly. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Cash flow Heuristic Logistics Net present value Project scheduling Resources...

... of the returns they can provide. For screening the so-called elective capital investments, it is helpful to have several financial investment criteria against which to evaluate them. Also using several investment criteria requires that management must make detailed estimates of future cash flows which result...