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Companies Don’t Maximise Working Capital. But Why Do We Try to Maximise Everything in Our Lives?
I was revising working capital management recently when something completely unrelated to finance crossed my mind. My schedule. At the moment, I have a full-time job. I’m studying for ACCA. I’ve just started building my publication, I want to exercise regularly and stay healthy. I want to spend more time with my partner, family and…
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Why Does Every Business Care So Much About Working Capital?
A few years ago, I started my own skincare business. Like many first-time business owners, I spent most of my time thinking about the product. We had something we believed in, customers were buying from us, and there was always another idea we wanted to work on. What I failed to realise at the time…
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Fallow Lane is a publication about finance, difficult decisions and the lives shaped by them. I write about the decisions behind the numbers, the questions they raise, and what financial thinking can teach us about business, work and life.