WORKING CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN MICRO INDUSTRIES (with special reference to Kerala state, India)

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Jayan V. K

Working capital structure plays a significant role in the profitability of any business organization. The major reason

behind any unsuccessful small scale industries is its wrong working capital structure, which cannot be easily identified

like the fixed capital problems. All the major financial problems in micro industries finally arrived at its weak working

capital structure. This study made an attempt to throw light on such working capital structure problems. The researcher has taken this topic to

identify the factors that constitute the working capital structure and its impact on firms overall profitability The researcher has been selected 100

samples across 10 different micro industries for the study using convenience sampling method. Major tools like Ratio Analysis, One way ANOVA ,

Standard Deviation, Mean Deviation, Coefficient of Variation etc are used in the study