Please discuss the Atlantic Lumber Traders case study, focusing on the following elements of the case:

(1) Identify the problem in financial terms.

(2) Diagnose the cause(s) by identifying specific business practices or situations that created or caused the problem

(3) Prescribe possible alternatives

(4) Recommend a plan of action (decision/implementation) along with proposed financial metrics (ratios/measures), which would define improvement success

(5) State the importance and relevance of the case to the study of business.