The treatise offers various techniques to address cash flow issues to mitigate damages during this pandemic:

1. Ensure you have a robust framework for managing supply chain risk.
2. Ensure your own financing remains viable.
3. Focus on the cash-to-cash conversion cycle.
4. Think like a CFO across the organization.
5. Revisit your variable costs.
6. Revisit capital investment plans.
7. Focus on inventory management.
8. Extend payables intelligently.
9. Manage and expedite receivables.
10. Consider alternate supply chain financing options.
11. Audit payables and receivables transactions
12. Understand your business interruption insurance.
13. Consider alternate or non-traditional revenue streams.
14. Convert fixed to variable cost, where possible.
15. Think beyond your four walls.

I. Pick your top five tactics to manage cash flow. Explain in detail why you picked these tactics and include one benefit and one challenge for each choice. You may want to focus on a context; i.e., consider your selection if you are a not-for-profit vs. a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) vs. a global corporation vs. a government unit, when you craft your answer. Be sure to provide the type of organization you chose when you respond. Does it, or does it not, matter when answering this question? Why? Finally, does your team think that cash management strategies are different now "post pandemic" vs. in the midst of the pandemic a year ago? Why or why not?