
Power BI for Working Capital Management – How to Bring Receivables, Inventory, and Payables Into a Single Liquidity View
A company can be profitable, meet its sales targets, and still require increasing amounts of financing for day-to-day operations. The reason is often not a lack of profit, but capital tied up in receivables and inventory or an unfavorable relationship between customer and supplier payment terms. For this reason, liquidity management should not be limited to monitoring the bank account balance. A much more complete picture comes from analyzing working capital and the cash conversion cycle. In PwC’s study of listed companies in the Middle East, working capital efficiency improved by 5.6% in 2024, while the authors estimated that USD 54.7 billion in potential cash remained tied up on the balance sheets of the companies analyzed. Power BI can move this type of analysis from periodic financial reporting into day-to-day management.











