Impact of Working Capital Management on Firm’S Profitability

Management of working capital play very essential role in the firm’s profitability. Therefore, this study aims to inquire the impact of working capital management on firm’s profitability.  For measuring working capital management inventory conversion period, debtor’s conversion period, creditor’s conversion period, cash conversion cycle, and cash conversion efficiencyare taken as independent variables. Firm’s profitability is measured by using the four dependent variables which are net profit margin, return on assets, return on equity, and return on capital employed. Regression analysis is used to discover the impact of working capital management on firm’s profitability by using secondary data. This data is gathered from annual reports of 45 companies listed at KSE for five years from 2008-2012. Manufacturing industry is selected because major portion of total assets contain current assets so working capital management efficiency is necessary in this industry. From results of this study, working capital management has significant impact on firm’s net profit margin, return on assets, and returns on capital employed and insignificant impact is find out on return on equity of firms. Therefore, it is concluded that working capital management has significant impact on firm’s profitability in food sector. It is concluded that if firms in food sector efficiently manage working capital then, firm’s profitability is enhanced. This study also find descriptive statistics which tells how well performance of firms in food sector is and how efficiently these firms are managing working capital. Keywords: Working capital, food sector, financial performance, cash conversion cycle, ICP, CCE, DC

From "best practice" to "best fit": a framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services

"Agricultural advisory services play an important role in supporting the use of the agricultural sector as an engine of pro-poor growth and enabling small farmers to meet new challenges, such as accessing export markets, adopting environmentally sustainable production techniques, and coping with HIV/AIDS and other health challenges that affect agriculture...There is now renewed interest in agricultural advisory services in many countries.... The questions under debate include: What should be the roles of the public sector, private sector, and civil society? How can we ensure that agricultural advisory services are demand-driven and meet the diverse information needs of farmers? How can advisory services be made efficient and financially sustainable? How can we ensure that female farmers, the poor, and other marginalized groups have access to agricultural advisory services?" from Authors' SummaryAgricultural extension work, Pro-poor growth, Capacity strengthening,

The effect of particle size on the in vivo degradation of poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide)/α-tricalcium phosphate micro- and nanocomposites.

UNLABELLED: This paper reports the effect of particle size within a resorbable composite on the in vivo degradation rate and host response. Resorbable composites based on poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) reinforced with tricalcium phosphate (TCP) have shown suitable degradation, biological and mechanical properties for bone repair. Composites with nano-sized TCP particles degrade more homogenously in vitro than equivalent composites with micro-sized particles. In this study, PLGA and PLGA/TCP composites containing micro- or nano-sized α-TCP particles were implanted into an ovine distal femoral condyle defect and harvested at 6, 12, 18 and 24weeks. An intimate interface was observed between the new bone tissue and degrading implants. Visual scoring of histological images and semi-automated segmentation of X-ray images were used to quantify implant degradation and the growth of new bone tissue in the implant site. Bone growth into the implant site occurred at a similar rate for both composites and the PLGA control. However, the in vivo degradation rate of the nanocomposite was slower than that of the microcomposite and consequently more closely matched the rate of bone growth. For the first 6weeks, the rate of in vivo degradation matched that of in vitro degradation, but lagged significantly at longer time points. These results point to the potential use of ceramic particle size in controlling composite degradation whilst maintaining good bone formation. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: This paper concerns degradable composites for orthopaedic application. The effect of particle size on implant degradation in vivo is not yet well characterised and these results give the first opportunity to directly compare in vitro and in vivo degradation rates for composites with micro- and nano-sized particles. This type of data is vital for the validation of models of composite degradation behaviour, which will lead to the design and manufacture of composites with a tailored, predictable degradation profile. The trainable segmentation tool can be used for future studies where X-rays of partially degraded implants (which have complicated greyscales and morphologies) need to be quantified without bias.The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from EPSRC grant: DT/E005233/1 (TP/5/REG/6/I/HO106A/DT/E006469/1). S M Bennett is grateful for sponsorship from Lucideon Ltd. and an EPSRC Doctoral Training Account grant. SW is grateful to Ms. Charlotte Fay von Karsa, for funding his Ph.D. studies. XCZ gratefully acknowledges funding from a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship. Dr RA Brooks gratefully acknowledges funding from the National Institute of Health Research.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Elsevier at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.08.046

Essays contributed to the Quarterly review /

Microfiche. Louisville, Ky. : Lost Cause Press, 1979. -- 10 sheets ; 11 x 15 cm.v.1. The naturalist in Sussex and on the spey. -- Darwin's "Origin of species.". -- "Essays and reviews." -- The Sandwich Islands. -- "Aids to Faith." -- The Church of England and her bishops. -- Dr. Newman's "Apologia." -- v.2. Clerical subscription. -- The Gallican church. -- The church and her curates. -- Royal authorship. -- The archbishops of Canterbury of the reformation. -- Keble's biography. -- East African slave trade.Mode of access: Internet

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Journal and letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn /

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