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How to Recession-Proof Your Business

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These KPIs could include elements such as profitability, efficiency, inventory turnover, AR turnover, sales per employee, and more. These measures should also be compared against others that operate in your same industry and sales class and/or specific industry subsets (e.g., Examine Your Talent and How Work is Getting Done.

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How To Fight Inflation: 14 Tips For Business Owners

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In an inflationary environment, if you provide your customers credit terms, intentionally or not, you are making a sale in today’s dollars that will result in you being paid with less valuable dollars at a later date. Restructuring a company in terms of the debt capital stack, takes time. Fix Your Debt. Do you have variable rate debt?

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

Now, there was one really important part of, of that as part of my job training, I was sent to the big sales offices to learn how the product was sold. One of the big sales offices was out in Long Island in Garden City. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. Made sense.

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