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CEOs Can’t Fight The Fed, But You Can Do These Things To Weather The Coming Storm

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If your costs are likely to increase by 20% or more over the next three years, have a multi-pronged approach and take bold actions. Stress test a simplified P&L and balance sheet for your company under different volume changes (include interest, taxes and capex—not just EBITDA). to make more costs variable).

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There Is A Roadmap Through Today’s Financial Crunch

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CFOs have the data; you need to massage it, P&L and balance sheets, in ways that people can understand. We’re not going to final costs — just gross margin, and gross margin that is inflation-adjusted. Look at fixed costs separately.”. • Make it common-sensical.”. If that is shrinking, you’ve got a problem.

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

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You see people who maintain highly conservative balance sheets and enormously prudent financial positions. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost. They’re not the most efficient use of capital; they’re not the most efficient use of buffers. What they are is enormously resilient by design.