Financial Resilience
Short definition
Financial resilience is staying out of default and fire sales in a shock while cash, covenants and operations continue. It is the flexibility stock plus the business still producing cash under stress.
Detailed explanation
Pieces: cash buffer, committed lines, collateral headroom, variable-cost share, price pass-through. Ratings and covenant headroom are the contractual face.
Resilience is not “low leverage”; short unsecured debt eats it. A scenario shows which shock exhausts which stock.
Why it matters for the CFO
In a high-rate and FX shock a resilient firm cuts investment by choice; a fragile one burns the supplier.
How to read it
Resilience is stressed DSCR and a non-negative 13-week. A single year’s profit is not resilience.
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