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Payables, Supplier Risk & “Funding Without Borrowing”: The WC-PULSE™ CFO Playbook
February 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown
WC-PULSE Framework™ | Working Capital Thought Series Executive Summary Accounts payable is often treated as the easiest working-capital lever: “extend terms and keep cash longer.” That framing is dangerous. Payables is a liquidity lever, but also a supply-chain risk lever. Pull it too hard and you may trigger price increases, allocation deprioritisation, quality slippage, stock-outs,...
