Late in a difficult year, a manufacturer capitalizes an unusually large amount of maintenance spend as plant improvements and extends the depreciable lives of major equipment — together worth two points of margin. How do you take this apart?

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

Late in a difficult year, a manufacturer capitalizes an unusually large amount of maintenance spend as plant improvements and extends the depreciable lives of major equipment — together worth two points of margin. How do you take this apart?

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