Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 2: Management Effectiveness - Improving Liquidity

What is liquidity?

• Investopedia: Liquidity
• Oracel NetSuite: What is liquidity and why does it matter to businesses?
• Personal IG: What is market liquidity and why is it important?

Liquidity ratios

• Investopedia: Liquidity ratio
• Corporate Finance Institute: Liquidity ratio
• Lumen Learning: Financial ratio analysis (explains the different types of Business ratios)

How to improve liquidity

• Planergy: Business liquidity and how to improve it
• Wells Fargo: 5 ways to improve your liquidity ratio
• Entrepreneur: 7 ways to improve liquidity
• Invensis: 5 ways to improve your liquidity ratios

Investopedia: What is credit risk?

Accounting Tools: Credit risk definition

Bank Rate: Credit risk

Corporate Finance Institute (CFI): Credit risk - Overview, risk management, credit rating, 5 Cs

Corporate Finance Institute (CFI): Credit risk analysis models

National Debt Helpline: Risks of using 'Buy now, pay later'

Nicole Heales Financial: The risks of 'Buy Now, pay later' services

Investopedia: Inventory

Unleashed: What is inventory management? Techniques for 2022

Oracle NetSuite: What Is Inventory? Types, examples and analysis

Oracle NetSuite: What is Inventory Management? Benefits, Types, & Techniques

Oracle NetSuite: Inventory control defined: Best practices, systems and management

Corporate Finance Institute: Operating Cycle

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ): Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) represents more than 131,673 financial professionals, supporting them to make a difference to the businesses, organisations and communities in which they work and live.

Australian Financial Markets Association: The Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) was formed in 1986. They are an industry association promoting efficiency, integrity and professionalism in Australia's financial markets.

Qld Government: Cash Flow Management

ATO: Manage your business cash flow

NetSuite: 13 Tips to Solve Cash Flow Problems

Quill Group: How to deal with cash flow problems - a quick guide

Oracle NetSuite: Cash Flow Analysis: Basics, Benefits and How to Do It

ASIC: Debt recovery for small business

Australian Tax Office: Deductions for unrecoverable income (bad debts)

Mazars: When is a bad debt a 'bad debt'?

Insight Accounting: The facts about bad debt deductions

Hall & Wilcox Smarter Law: Bad debts deductions - what you need to know

Marshall Freeman: How to prevent bad debt

Steadfast: 5 steps to minimise bad business debts

Upflow: 8 Best practices to effectively manage Accounts Receivable

Investopedia: Accrual accounting

Corporate Financial Institute: Accrual accounting

Oracle NetSuite: Accrual-based accounting explained - What it is, advantages and examples

Business.gov.au: Choose between cash and accrual accounting

Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission: Cash and accrual accounting

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 Australian Financial Review (only accessible on campus, without logins)

 ABC News Online: Australian Broadcasting Corporation news website

 SBS News: Australian news service provided by SBS

1. Use 'Ctrl F' (Control + Find) to search for particular terms easily in a long document, whether from a website or a database article.

2.  Use a Boolean command - put double inverted commas around phrases to limit and improve your results eg "energy drinks cardiovascular problems children". 

3. Use a Google domain command eg site:edu OR site:gov to limit results to a CERTAIN DOMAIN such as education or government eg biodiesel site:edu

4. Use a Google command to limit results to the MOST RECENT: After you get your results, choose the Google Menu Bar, and choose 'Tools'. Then on the far left, at the drop-down menu next to 'Any Time', you can choose 'Within the last year' (or less, if you prefer), but generally, you can choose 'Custom Range' at the bottom, as often the last 3-4 years would be sufficient for a recent search.

Xero: What is Accounts Receivable, and where can it go wrong?

SquareUp: What are Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR)?

ScotPac Business Finance: What is Accounts Receivable?

Oracle NetSuite: Accounts Receivable (AR) explained

Indeed: What is Accounts Receivable, and how does it work?

Investopedia: Accounts Payable (AP)

Mineral Tree: What is Accounts Payable? (Definition, process & examples)

Oracle NetSuite: What is Accounts Payable (AP)?

Stampli: What is Accounts Payable? Definition, Job Description & Software

QuickBooks Blog: Accounts payable definition, examples, and how it works

RMIT: Balance day adjustments

RMIT: Types of balance day adjustments

Study.com: Making balance day adjustments to accounting reports

Mr Meyer's Accounting Class: Various YouTube links to various useful videos

Wall Street Mojo: Reporting period

Debitoor: Period end reporting

Corporate Financial Institute: Reporting period

Vertafore: End of period and end of year

Accounting Tools: Reporting period definition

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  IBISWorld (accessible on campus and at home - both via logins) Has research on over 500 Australian Industries, including statistics, analysis and forecasts. Note: Logins are needed both at home and on campus.