What you'll learn
How working capital unfolds across your operating cycle and why most owners don't see it coming
The practical difference between inventory, receivables, and payables management, and which lever moves the needle fastest
How to calculate your working capital requirements and forecast them accurately as you grow
Why funding growth is a working capital problem, not just a profit problem
A step-by-step framework to reduce working capital drag without sacrificing customer relationships or supplier trust
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Growing businesses often hit an invisible wall. Revenue is climbing, profit margins look healthy, but you need more and more cash just to fund the next level of growth. You're borrowing just to stay current on payables. You're holding inventory longer than you should. You're waiting weeks for customers to pay. None of this shows up clearly on your P&L until it's too late.
This is the working capital trap. It's different from the cash conversion cycle, it's about the absolute amount of cash tied up in your business operations at any given moment. A business can be perfectly profitable and still run out of cash if it's not managing working capital carefully. Understanding this difference is what separates businesses that can fund growth from the inside versus those that need external capital to scale.
This white paper walks you through exactly how much working capital your business needs at each stage, where the biggest leaks usually are, and how to engineer them out without creating friction with customers or suppliers.
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About the author
Valont
Business capability firm for Australian SMEs
Articles published under the Valont name are written and reviewed by the Valont team, the specialists who do this work for Australian SMEs every day across Finance, People, Operations and Growth. Where a piece has an individual author, it is credited to them by name.
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