This study was conducted to examine the influence of liquidity management on firm value of quoted manufacturing companies in Nigeria. This was premised on the fact that continuous existence of quoted manufacturing companies is guaranteed by the level of improvement in firm value, which may depend upon the level of liquidity management technique employed by managers. Have these techniques of liquidity management adopted by managers of quoted manufacturing companies in Nigeria influence firm value? Ex-post facto research design was employed for the study. Fortytwo (42) quoted companies were sampled out off a population of fifty-six (56) quoted listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as at December 31, 2019. The independent variables for liquidity management were measured by current ratio (CRR), Quick Ratio (QR), Cash Ratio (CR) and Net Working Capital Ratio (NWCR), and Firm Value (AV) was the dependent variable panel date was sourced from the published financial reports of the sampled companies and analysed using Fixed effect regression technique. Results revealed that CRR, QR and NWCR had positive and significance influence on FV, CR had a positive and insignificant influence. It was recommended that managers of quoted companies should invest continuously on current assets for the purpose of raising liquidity and profitability which impacts on firm value.

This study was aimed at examining the influence of cash flow management on financial performance of selected listed companies in Nigeria. This was premised on the conflicting results and assertions in the literature in respect to the influence of cash flow management and financial performance of entities. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study using secondary data of sixty-three (63) selected listed companies in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the period 2013 to 2019. The nature of data was panel data. The dependent variable for financial performance is Return on Asset (ROA), while independent variables was cash flow management decomposed into Operating Cash Flow Margin (OCFM), Operating Cash Flow Ratio (OCFR), Investing Cash Flow Ratio (ICFR), Financing Cash Flow Ratio (FCFR) and Net Cash Flow Ratio (NCFR). The descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analyses. Results showed that OCFM, OCFR, ICFR and NCFR had positive and significant influence on Financial Performance (ROA) and FCFR had a negative and insignificant influence on financial performance (ROA) of selected listed companies in Nigeria. It was recommended that managers of entities and policy makers, financial consultants and regulatory agencies avail themselves of the core variables of cash flow management used in this study to understand their nexus and to improve in their statutory functions to enhance long-term sustainability of entities.