الفهرس 
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Abstract
Cash issues are various and complicated. The contractor starts with a
forecast for the flow of the cash through the lifetime of the project. Cash shortages
can lead to project failure and business bankruptcy.
Researchers have studied cash flow in the context of project delay, business
failure, and forecasting. However, negative cash flow trends and patterns
themselves have not been closely examined despite the amount, duration and
distribution of negative cash flow are critical factors in construction performance.
Unless contractors manage to procure adequate cash to keep construction work
running according to schedule, the pace of work will definitely be relaxed.
Finance-based scheduling provides the needed control through devising the
minimum-duration project schedule, which corresponds to the credit limit of the
minimum interest rate. Thus, finance-based scheduling was used as a tool to
minimize project indirect costs, financing costs, and consequently maximize the
project profit. Therefore, always keeping scheduled activities in balance with
available cash is a potential contribution to producing realistic schedules.
This study investigates cash flow management and profit optimization by
reducing the extent and amount of negative cash flow on the construction projects
and completes them as scheduled by rescheduling construction activities on the
basis of the minimum cash flow availability.
This system is a quantitative system design and attempts to minimize
negative cash to avoid a budget deficit without delaying project completion,
thereby helping contractors release financial pressures on activity execution. This
is done by attempting minimizing cash overdrafts in case of borrowing. Hence,
maximum profit can be attained. This necessitates an appropriate cash flow
management strategy.