Abstract
Businesses regardless of their sizes needed financial management as an ingredient in
sustaining the business and maintaining their profitability. However, most small
businesses struggle in operating the business for various reasons; lack of managerial
skills, registration problems, financial knowledge capability. Financial management
strategies are an essential part of managing and controlling these problems and in
contributing to the profitability of small businesses in Pasig City which the study
centralizes. To investigate, the study uses a simple random sampling and questionnaires
to gather information from one-hundred twenty (120) small businesses in four different
barangays in Pasig City: Brgy. San Miguel, Brgy. Manggahan, Brgy. Maybunga and Brgy.
Rosario. The researchers applied The weighted mean as statistical treatment to
determine the significant influence of the strategies to businesses and spearman rho is
used to investigate the relationship of each financial management strategies in
profitability. In terms of internal control, capital management and financial literacy
practices are strongly agreed to be performed by businesses. The results show that small
businesses strongly agree with the significance of financial management strategies in
different aspects such as forecasting, cash flows and sales to enhance profitability. In the
significant relationship of financial management strategies and the profitability of small
businesses only financial literacy is shown to have a significant relationship in forecasting
the profitability of small businesses. The research shows the importance of financial
management strategies to profitability may not directly depend on internal control and
capital management but underscored the significant relationship of financial literacy in
predicting future performance of small businesses which suggests actions of enhanced
practices and strategies to yield profitability.