ocr: Short Term Utilisation Short term utilisation is one of the two categories that we can regard managementsinvestment of tunds as falling into. Here funds are being invested in current assets. Current assets can be regarded as an investment in temporary, assets in the sense that they will constantly be circulating and are only held by the business for a short period in the normal course of trading. The extent to which the business receives credit from its suppliers will reduce the amount of capital required to finance its working capital (since wc-ca-cl, the higher the creditor balance, the lowe ...