Working Capital Insights
Achieve Cost Leadership: How US Top Performers Use an Agentic Strategy to Slash SG&A Costs
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs for U.S. enterprises have surged to 14.3% of revenue – the highest in five…
Master Cost Leadership Now: Learn from Europe’s Gen AI Leaders
Selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) costs have skyrocketed to 11.5% of revenue, the highest since 2020, with just 18%…
Unlock €1.4 Trillion in Working Capital – What Europe’s Leading Firms Do Differently
The Hackett Group’s 2025 European Working Capital Survey reveals €1.4 trillion trapped across Europe’s top 1,000 companies. As cash conversion…
2025 Working Capital Survey: Seize $1.7 Trillion in Working Capital – See How Top Companies Do It
Discover how The Hackett Group’s 2025 U.S. Working Capital Survey uncovers a $1.7 trillion liquidity opportunity. Learn how top companies…
Cash Is Still King: Free $1.76T in Trapped Liquidity with Oracle’s AI-Powered Edge
Top finance leaders are unlocking billions in working capital—yet $1.76 trillion remains trapped in DSO, DPO, and DIO inefficiencies. This…
The Future of Generative AI: From Exploration to Enterprise Acceleration
Enterprise leaders are confronting the promise and challenge of AI by reimagining work and the workforce to determine the role…
EU companies have 1.3 trillion euros of working capital lying idle
Georg Bach, a Principal of The Hackett Group® in Transformation Finance, recently had his blog published in Corporate Finance (Handelsblatt-Group),…
2024 Working Capital Survey: Key Insights and How to Recalibrate
For the first time in a decade, the U.S. companies in our survey experienced simultaneous degradation across all three major…
2024 APAC Working Capital Survey Highlights
2024 European Working Capital Survey Highlights
2024 Working Capital Survey: Reversal of Fortune
2024 APAC Working Capital Survey Highlights
The Hackett Group’s 2024 Working Capital Survey reveals a staggering $3.4 trillion in untapped working capital opportunity as the largest…