Micro and Small Enterprises play important role for the development of our economy. Working capital is required to run the enterprises efficiently. The enterprises have to determine the required level of working capital on the basis of factors determining working capital requirements of the enterprises and they have to prefer the factors on the basis of their relative importance. Therefore, the present study has assessed the relative importance of factors determining working capital requirements of micro and small enterprises in the Barak Valley of Assam. The study has also assessed the relative importance of factors determining working capital requirements of manufacturing enterprises and service enterprises in the Valley. The enterprises which are registered with District Industries and Commerce Centers of the three districts of the Valley namely Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts as on 31-3-2012 and which are functioning have been studied in the present study. Sample size of the study is 246 of which 81.71 % are micro enterprises and 18.29 % are small enterprises. Again, 78.86 % of the sample enterprises are manufacturing enterprises and 21.14 % of the enterprises are service enterprises. The study is based on the primary data. The sampling technique of the study is ‘convenience sampling’. Arithmetic mean, rank and standard deviation have been used for data analysis. The hypotheses are tested with the help of the statistical technique ‘Mann-Whitney U test’.

Author Name: Md. Iqbal Uddin Tapadar, Prof. Nikhil Bhusan Dey, Dr. Kingshuk Adhikari

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Keywords: Working Capital, Nature of Business, Size of the Business, Manufacturing Process, Seasonal Variations, Business Cycles, Earning Capacity, Competition Level, Working Capital Cycle, Rate of Stock Turnover

ISSN: 0970-8464

EISSN: 2456-1223

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