How to Use working capital in a Sentence

working capital

noun

• To go fix that stuff, so what takes up a lot of the cash is the working capital cycle.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Sep. 2018
• The short-term working capital will be used to make the investments.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2022
• One report suggested that 31% of SMBs have up to two months of working capital, while 58% only have enough to last three to five months.
  — Nick Chandi, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• One of the biggest challenges is the working capital required.
  — Catherine Kuo, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Manufacturers supplied knitters with working capital in the form of yarn and paid them by the pair.
  — Virginia Postrel, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• The loans are similar to a loan for working capital that a business owner might seek out from a bank, but with lower rates and easier terms.
  — John S. Marshall, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
• Those are the largest pieces of working capital, and those are the pieces that many people in the organization can directly affect.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• Those funds would be used to buy equipment and furnishings, and provide working capital.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2018
• At the beginning of the quarter, the company held a public offering of its class A common stock, with the proceeds used for working capital.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2023
• For now, Netflix has plugged the increase in working capital by turning to the debt market, a move that has concerned some investors, analysts say.
  — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
• The trucker plans to use a $300 million tranche of the government loan to pay off health, pension and other obligations, and for working capital, Mr. Pierson said.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 8 July 2020
• The first is their balance sheets—working capital, reserves, endowment and debt.
  — Adrian Ellis, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2020
• Companies for years have worked on postponing the due dates on their bills to free up cash for running their businesses, or working capital.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 7 June 2021
• With a dearth of working capital, the micro and small enterprises were in no position to pay and lakhs of workers abandoned small towns and cities to return to their villages.
  — Priya Dharshini, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2021
• Even so, many suppliers were forced to dig deep into their limited reserves of working capital to stay afloat.
  — Christian Lanng, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Airlines tend to use advance bookings as working capital -- in other words, to buy fuel.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
• As part of the transaction, Aytu also will provide Neos with up to $5 million in working capital for the period prior to the closing.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 10 Dec. 2020
• For CFOs, a key selling point of real-time payments is the ability to closely manage working capital.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Since then, the stock price of Intuit had appreciated some 24%, which combined with an uptick in Credit Karma's working capital, boosted the price tag of the deal.
  — Jen Wieczner, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2020
• The funds were meant to be used as working capital or for normal operating expenses, such as rent and utilities.
  — al, 25 Oct. 2021
• After the lockdown ends, banks should be allowed to convert working capital credit of industries into loans of three to five years, to be paid in equal instalments.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 26 Apr. 2020
• The bill, if passed, would allow the UW System to invest more of its working capital, including auxiliary and tuition income.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2022
• In that case, make sure your working capital ratio is between 1.2 and 2 to signify a healthy business to lending companies.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• All too often, invention and agility become unwanted sources of risk for a stretched set of resources and working capital.
  — Martin Taylor, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• The next steps for Norwegian are to raise the necessary working capital and equity through share offerings.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• The head of supply chain operations may commit to reductions in inventory working capital through the use of a new AI tool.
  — Mark Settle, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The potential benefits of a partnership between the No. 1 and No. 3 plane-makers are clear, even if implications for tax, working capital and debt aren't known at this point.
  — Julie Johnsson and Fabiola Moura, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
• That is working capital which small-time exporters cannot easily replace.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• This amount would take care of our working capital and capital expenditure needs.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 5 Feb. 2020
• Inventory planners placed product in the right place to balance supply and demand and were measured on working capital costs.
  — Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024