Free ebookWorking Capital 101: Receivables, Payables, and Inventory in Corporate Finance

Course Description

Working Capital 101: Receivables, Payables, and Inventory in Corporate Finance is a practical ebook course in business administration that shows how day to day operating decisions shape cash, profit, and financial stability. If you want clearer visibility into where cash gets trapped and how to release it without damaging growth, this course connects corporate finance concepts to real workflows across billing, collections, purchasing, and inventory management.

You will learn how accounts receivable affects cash flow from the moment a credit sale is made through billing and collection, and how credit terms and pricing choices influence risk, customer behavior, and liquidity. The course explains how to move from invoice to cash with better collections discipline and more reliable cash forecasting, helping you support planning, treasury needs, and management reporting.

On the payables side, you will explore how accounts payable and supplier terms can preserve cash while maintaining strong vendor relationships. You will practice thinking like a finance partner during supplier negotiations, building a payables strategy that balances discounts, payment timing, and continuity of supply so operational teams and finance teams stay aligned.

Inventory is treated as both a service enabler and a major use of cash. You will understand why stock ties up working capital and how inventory strategies such as reorder points, safety stock, EOQ, and lean trade offs can be evaluated with real world constraints like demand variability and service levels. The course brings these levers together through the cash conversion cycle, showing how receivables, payables, and inventory interact as one system rather than separate silos.

To make the learning actionable, you will interpret the working capital KPIs used in corporate finances, including DSO, DPO, DIO, aging, turns, and service metrics, and connect operational choices to financial outcomes through scenario analysis and practical controls. Start the course today to build sharper working capital instincts and apply them immediately in forecasting, performance management, and cross functional decision making.