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The working capital management plays an important role for success or failure of firm in business because of its effect on firm's profitability as well on liquidity. The working capital management refers to the management of working capital, or precisely to the management of current assets. A firm's working capital consists of its investments in current assets, which includes short-term assets-cash and, inventories, receivable and marketable securities. Therefore, the working capital management refers to the management of the levels of all these individual current assets. The universe of the study is textile industry of Pakistan, which is one of the oldest and the fast developing industry in the large scale sector of Pakistan. The study is based on secondary data collected from listed firms in Karachi stock exchange for the period of 2001-2006 with an attempt to investigate the relationship existing between profitability, and working capital management components for listed firms in Karachi stock exchange. The reason for restricting to this particular time period is that the latest and updated data for investigation is available for this period.
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I am working as Assistant Professor, in Business Management Department, at Karakuram International University Skardu Campus. I did MBA from Agricultural University IBMS/CS, Peshawar in 2005, after that I did MS from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad in 2011.
