Case analysis: you are a functional supervisor in your company. recently, you have been asked to attend an emergency meeting to discuss critical issues that concern low sales, economics of the industry, branding, high turnover, low employee morale, employee salary and benefits cut, and product defects. given the fact that you have a high number of issues to tackle, put in place a creative (or critical) thinking strategy/plan to resolve all of the above issues. in some cases, discuss in detail some remedies to resolve these issues. be explicit as to how they can be accomplished.

Lipman auto parts, a family-owned auto parts store, began january with $10,300.00 in cash. management forecasts that collections from credit customers will be $11,400.00 in january and $14,800.00 in february. the store is scheduled to receive $5,000.00 in cash on a business note receivable in january. projected cash payments include inventory purchases ($13,000.00 in january and $13,600.00 in february) and operating expenses ($2,700.00 each month). lipman auto parts' bank requires a $10,000.00 minimum balance in the store's checking account. at the end of any month when the account balance dips below $10,000.00, the bank automatically extends credit to the store in multiples of $1,000.00. lipman auto parts borrows as little as possible and pays back loans in quarterly installments of $2,000.00, plus 4 percent interest on the entire unpaid principal. the first payment occurs three months after the loan.