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Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: LAWRENCE SPORTS INC.

Problem Solution: Lawrence Sports Inc.

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Problem Solution: Lawrence Sports Inc.

Introduction

In the current business economy, business entities are highly concerned with maximizing liquidity and ensuring cash optimization (Keeler, 2005). Good cash management is an essential and very important activity of every business entity. "Working capital is truly the life blood of any business big or small." (Unknown author2005) "Working capital is the cash a business requires for its day-to-day operations, and for financing the conversion of raw materials into finished goods, which the entity sells for payment." (Unknown author 2003) An effective and efficient management staff will manage the entity's bottom line of working capital and realize that in order to improve the bottom line, management has to understand the tradeoff of maintaining good relationships with customers and vendors in order to protect their profits.

This case will present Lawrence Sports Scenario, trying to illustrate and reveal some points about the working capital management and some changes that can enforce many large corporations to revise their strategic and the way of operating their activates to promote more competitive strategies in order