The accounting cycle is the accounting process used to record business transactions in accounting books and supply the end-of-accounting-period financial statements. The operating cycle is the ...

Money is tied up in inventory until it can be sold. As a result, cash invested in the inventory is not available for alternative uses. Maintaining a short operating cycle and cash conversion cycle are ...

Failure to manage working capital leads a firm into bankruptcy. Operating Cycle (OC) is a tool that helps firms avoid such trouble. Let us look at the computation of OC along with its inference rule.