Contents

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
• LITERATURE REVIEW
• METHODOLOGY
• CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
• REFERENCES
• APPENDIX

Description

The organization is looking forward to make an acquisition of a company in the oil, gas and petroleum industry. The purpose of this report is to carefully scrutinize the working capital management of a few firms in the industry and give feedback.
The corporations that were chosen are: Atlantic Petroleum ltd, Osterreichische Mineralolverwaltung (OMV) and Dong Energy ltd. Each has a distinct aspect to offer for this essay.
Working capital management is the supervision of the different of working capital components such as the current assets, current liabilities and the short term obligations so as to ascertain that a balance is struck and the company is able to meet its short term commitments as well as the operation costs.
Through the evaluation of the working capital management of the three firms, then we will have an insight of determining whether it is worthwhile to acquire a company in the oil, gas and petroleum industry or not.