The Stress Test Every Business Needs

Index

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• ABL. See Asset-based loan
• Accounts payable, 117
• Accounts receivable, 117
• Achtmeyer, Bill, 217, 237
• Acquisitions (Chapter 5) See also Mergers and acquisitions
  • bolt-on, 69-70
  • candidates, 57–58
  • cash for, 115
  • competing, 24
  • deal types, 68–70
  • ego-driven, 39
  • EY review of, 67
  • hostile offer, 34
  • overpaying for, 36
  • perspective of, 54–55
  • PIR (Post-investment review) for, 41
  • portfolio management and, 54–55
  • SFO integration, 145, 148–149
  • threshold value for, 57
  • transformative, 68, 228
  • tuck-in, 68-69
  • Whole Foods example, 139–140
• Activist shareholders (Chapter 13)
  • anticipating issues of, 193–194
  • board of directors and, 191–192
  • conversations with, 195–196
  • evolution of, 186–188
  • example of, 185–186
  • focus of, 190–192
  • full company sale and, 188–190
  • operational issues and, 192
  • mainstreaming, 188
  • pervasiveness of, 197
  • proposals by, 192–193
  • protection against, 190
  • responses to, 184–196
• Adamczyk, Darius, 51–52
• Advisors (Chapter 11)
  • anonymized case studies by, 160
  • appropriate use of, 154-157
  • as competitors, 160–162
  • as peers, 160–162
  • building relationship with, 162
  • cost of, 159
  • due diligence on, 159–161
  • ending relationship with, 164–165
  • for distressed companies, 210–211
  • hiring process for, 157–162
  • interviewing, 158–159, 161
  • journey partner, 165-167
  • leading practices, 163–165
  • methodology of, 153–154, 164
  • principles, 153
  • scope creep, 164
  • selection, bases for, 159
• Agility, 42
• Allergan, 5–7, 9–10
• Amazon
  • day 1 concept at, 137
  • day 2 concept at, 137–138
  • innovations, 173–178
  • Whole Foods acquisition ...