Pérez, C. Gestión financiera en las empresas de servicios de alimentación industrial
118 Revista de Artes y Humanidades UNICA, Volumen 26 Nº54 / Enero - Junio 2025, pp. 117-126
Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta – Maracaibo – Venezuela. ISSN: 1317-102X / e - ISSN: 2542-3460
Financial Management in Industrial Food Service Companies
Abstract
The financial health of any organization depends decisively on the management of its operations.
Therefore, it is important to properly manage the company's resources to ensure they are
sufficient to cover operating expenses. Therefore, it is imperative that those responsible maintain
proper and orderly control of both income and expenses. This management fully determines how
and for what purpose the company's resources will be allocated, through the use of investment
strategies that not only seek to achieve the best economic results for the organization, but also
allow for the proper development of each and every one of its functions. The objective of this
research was to identify working capital for financial management in industrial food service
companies in the municipality of Maracaibo, Zulia state. The methodology was descriptive
research, focusing on the realities of events as they occurred, with the goal of describing and
presenting them. The research used a non-experimental, cross-sectional design in the field. The
sample consisted of the companies Isola Foods, Novarofoods, Pastas Capri, Agronivar, By Gaby,
Alimentos Jeanricar, Genica, and Premium, specifically their Administration and Finance
departments. The results indicate that the optimal use of funds channeled to support production
can often be verified by ensuring that the company maintains the liquid resources strictly
necessary to cover its commitments to employees, workers, suppliers, financial institutions,
shareholders, partners, and governments (taxes).
Keywords: Financial management, working capital, companies
Introducción
La gerencia financiera es el área de la administración que se centra en decisiones de
inversión, manejo del dinero, fuentes de financiamiento, administración de activos, control de
costos y maximización de utilidades y beneficios y su finalidad es ayudar a las empresas a realizar
un uso correcto de su dinero, apoyándose en herramientas financieras para lograr una correcta
optimización de los recursos, administrándolos y manteniendo un adecuado control de los mismos,
para maximizar el valor de la empresa manteniendo una adecuada salud financiera.
La gestión financiera determina en su totalidad, la manera en cómo y para qué se va a
destinar los recursos que se tiene de la empresa, por medio del empleo de estrategias de inversión,
las cuales no solo buscan obtener los mejores resultados desde el punto de vista económico para
la organización, sino que a la par permitan aupar el buen desarrollo de todas y cada una de las
funciones que se llevan a cabo.