We provide evidence for some of these points in the empirical section. We go further by showing how better working capital management can improve cash flows by using the case study of a large corporation that is not financially constrained. For financially constrained companies, this issue should be even more important. In that sense, we reinforce most of the arguments in the literature and show that the inefficient allocation of working capital investments may be pervasive in emerging markets and a much more important issue for shareholder value than previously thought.