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MANAGEMENT OF WORKING CAPITAL


            Cash Management


           • Ways of relieving cash flow problems include


               the following:


                  • offering settlement discounts to debtors


                  • factoring debtors (although this is a drastic and expensive
                      step!)


                  • increasing the bank overdraft

                   • reducing inventory levels, thereby reducing holding costs

                   • extending creditor payments

                   • selling assets that are not earning sufficient returns

                   • enter into sale-and-leaseback agreements


                   • not paying dividends

                   • not undertaking (or extending) routine asset replacements

                   • negotiating with the SARS to pay off taxes due, over a

                      specified period

                   • cost cutting

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