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DOI: Methods for Optimizing Financial Flows to Ensure Exponential Revenue Growth in Real Estate Development Companies
Iryna Vysochanska , Business Consultant, Construction Business, City, UkraineAbstract
The article presents a systematic analysis of financial flow optimization methods for real estate development companies amid growing project capital intensity, a complicating regulatory environment, and intensifying competition in real estate markets. The study integrates theoretical and applied approaches to calendar-financial planning, payment cycle management, digital tracking of work progress, and initial financial project selection with the generalized patterns of investment and construction portfolio operations. Key revenue scaling factors are examined: synchronizing production and settlement events, reducing payment lags, managing liquidity, predicting cash inflows, utilizing threshold return rates, and integrating digital forecasting tools. Particular attention is paid to shifting managerial focus from increasing debt capital toward models based on accelerating capital turnover and altering the temporal geometry of cash flows without extending project duration. It is shown that rescheduling operations, implementing advance and partial payment mechanisms, and digitally automating the verification of completed work establish a stable financial framework, reduce the amplitude of cash deficits, and limit the need for external financing. The paper demonstrates that a developer's financial stability emerges as a result of integrating calendar, payment, and investment filters, and its improvement is directly linked to the level of digital maturity, organizational alignment, and the ability to account for the portfolio nature of the business. This article can be useful for executives of development companies, chief financial officers, investment analysts, and construction project management specialists when formulating strategies for business scaling and capital turnover acceleration.
Keywords
cash flow, capital turnover, payment cycle, digital maturity, hurdle rate, real estate development.
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