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Retail / CPG
High volume, thin margin, heavy trade promotion and channel complexity.
What changes about the finance work: Promotion incrementality is the central analytical problem
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changes these tasks
1The task exists in this business archetype but behaves differently. The note is the point of the edge: it must say how it differs, not merely that it does.
Inventory is the dominant working capital line and it is seasonal, so a point-in-time cash conversion cycle misleads. Trade promotion timing also shifts receivables materially, which means working capital targets have to be set against a seasonal curve rather than a single number.