A warehouse fire destroyed $$4\mathrm{.}7$ million worth of uninsured inventory.

Global used $$4\mathrm{.}7$ million in cash and $$4\mathrm{.}9$ million in new long$-$term debt to purchase a $$9\mathrm{.}6$ million building.

A large customer owing $$2\mathrm{.}5$ million for products it already received declared bankruptcy, leaving no possibility that Global would ever receive Global's engineers discover a new manufacturing process that will cut the cost of its flagship product by more than $51\%.$

A key competitor announces a radical new pricing policy that will drastically undercut Global's prices.