A REPORT ON WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT At SWASATA CEMENT LIMITED

The report is submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirement of MBA Programme of Hindustan University, Padur, Chennai. BY SHASHI KUMAR

School of Management Hindustan University, Padur July 2012

DECLARATION

I SHASHI KUMAR here by declared that this original study report titled Working Capital Management at Swasata Cement Ltd. is an original work done by me for the degree of MBA under Hindustan University, Chennai. I further declare that this work is not partly or wholly submitted for any other purpose and that the data included in the report collected from various sources and true to the best of my knowledge.

Place: Purulia Date: 20 0 7 - 2012

signature (SHASHI KUMAR)

AKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost I thank and praise almighty whose blessings have made this project work a success. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Purnendu Gangopadhyay .G.M who permitted me to do my project in Swasata Cement Ltd., Purulia and I am very thankful to him for all the support and guidance throughout the project work. I extend my deepest gratitude to Ms. K.K. Sreedevi, Faculty guide, Hindustan University, Chennai for the encouragement, guidance, and helpful suggestions. I am very much thankful to all the staffs in the Swasata Cement Limited, which directly and indirectly helped me by extending their full co -operation despite their tight office schedule. I express my ultimate gratitude to the god almighty that has been instrument for enlightening me on my academic venture. I am sincerely grateful to my parents and my dear friends for their encouragement, support and love

SHASHI KUMAR

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The management of the working capital is an integral part of management analysis due to risk involved with it and return on investment. To know the financial health of the company /business , analysis of financial statement is a necessary. Fixed assets are essential for running of the business whereas current assets plays a very vital role in meeting day to day operations. With the help of tools & technique of financial statement analysis one can know the liquidity, solvency and profitability position of the company. The present study is an attempt to find out soundness of Working Capital Management at Swasata Cement Limited and to study how far it handles the financial resources particularly current assets . For this , every possible effort has been made and adequate data has been collected to have a better conclusion over the study.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Name of Chapter
INTRODUCTION
1.1. WORKING CAPITAL 1.2. CONCEPTS OF WORKING CAPITAL 1.3. WORKING CAPITAL ITS COMPONENTS 1.4. FACTOR ESTIMATING WORKING CAPITAL 1.5 IMPOTANCE OF WORKING CAPITAL RATIOS 1.6 SOURCES OF WORKING CAPITAL 1.7 USES OF WORKING CAPITAL 1.8 SCOPE OF STUDY 1.9. OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

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INDUSTRY PROFILE
2.1 INDUSTRY PROFILE 2.2 MISSION AND VISION 2.3. AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES 2.4. OBJECTIVES AND OBLIGATIONS

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CEMENT INDUSTRY
3.1. ABOUT 3.2. TYPES 3.3. CEMENT MANUFACUTRING PROCESS 3.4. ITS FUTURE

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SWOT ANALYSIS
4.1. STENGTHS 4.2. WEAKNESS 4.3 OPPORTUNITIES 4.4. THREATS

DATA ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION CONCLUTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

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