Short-term decisions is usually driven with an objective to
maximise limited resources. Few examples of short term decision
making in finance are:
- Products' price reduction to gain customers or market
share
- Product's price reduction to get special orders so that you can
utilize your spare / idle capacity and make some incremental cash
flows
- Changing the product mix when there is a capacity
contraint
- Decide to produce an item in house rather than buy from the
market
- Lease a facility to start the production and set the ball
rolling rather than wait for external funding to buy the
facility
- Discontinue certain product lines to free up certain capacity
that can be deployed to produce more profitable products
- Undertaking replacement projects