To most companies, making profits is the ultimate goal for its management. It`s inevitable for any corporations to pursue next expansion when the current business is matured or looking for another opportunity, which may bring in more profits or revenue growth. However, in the case of BenQ merging Siemens, it showed us how hard for a smaller enterprise trying to purchase a big business, which might burn thousands of its capitals, without sufficient cash flow support.
Likewise, the prestigious Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) Group owned by the most fortuned person in Asia, Li Ka-shing, started form a small company running for Ports and related Service, but now has become the conglomerate with multiple core business ,comprising Ports, Retails, Hotels, Infrastructure, Energy and Telecommunication within only 33years since 1977.This achievement came from a company , which being considered as very conservative on its financial strategy by having low debt ratio and leverage and keep high cash reserved. Especially, the HWL kept loss money in the past eight years since it decided to jump into the 3G telecommunication, which required a lot of initial capital expenditure before profits in the year 2002. On the surface, the market downgraded its performance and none were optimistic to its dared investment. However, the HWL not only just survive, meanwhile its global business on Retails and telecommunication has drastic growth and expansion in these years. In other words, this heavy burden didn`t embroil HWL like what Siemens cell phone business to BenQ. On the contrary, after this test, the HWL became the global 3G leader and build up a barrier that other competitor hard to cross.
In this paper, I am going to analysis and elaborate the cash flow management strategy of the HWL by dissecting its financial statements through the profit model method. To realize its unique philosophy by using the strategy of multiple business diversification, globalization, flexibility of financial action to boost the liquidity of cash flow and generate more free cash flow (FCF) afterwards. Now, this past conservative corporate has turned out to be the furious merger expertise and being considered as the icon of the business expansion by setting up a new model, which can be referenced. Recently, the famous Taiwan finance corporate –Fubon group has taken the similar strategy as HWL and gains a bright result. Hence, it proves that its business model on incorporating cash flow on expansion is worthy to have more attentions and could be a good path for more Taiwan industries to follow.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0097933023 |
| Creators | 梁偉祺, Liang, Charles |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 英文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Rights | Copyright © nccu library on behalf of the copyright holders |
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