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Of course the set budget, quarterly and yearly reports are really freakin' important but eroding the health of a company only for short term profit just doesn't make any sense I guess other than something of a hail mary in conjunction with a possible sale but if you plan on running or being with the company long term then why wouldn't you look at it long term.
A small dip into the red provided you can carry the loss of course makes more sense if it means you can keep appearances up, customers happy, employees happy and have a good vantage point for when it picks up which you already should have some strategy for instead of putting yourself in a negative deathspiral of sorts (granted you could take yourself out of it I guess although a lot of managers get to go if they don't perform as expected so it's more likely either not getting to hold out on the dip or picking up the slack after a lot of the damage has been done but reparing the loss of trust and goodwill as well as competent loyal employees that could be a whole different ball game although not impossible) which could mean you could struggle to barely make ends meet or just slowly bleed funds.
Happy employees does a better job, gives better service, produce more i.e. in turn generates more profits but then again I guess you could argues that a sweatshop with just a crack and a whip without any form of carrot does generate a profit as well