CFOs will be pitching themselves and their companies not just to banks, tax authorities and external auditor but also customers, suppliers, supply chain partners and so on.

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Our business priority is to work with our external component suppliers, supporting their efforts to rebuild the supply chain as quickly as possible.

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Or to put it another way, he believes there is a vast amount of money locked up in industry's relatively inefficient supply chain - and if this money can be released smaller companies would have much less need for external finance.

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