Pavlo left the meeting with a clear mandate–delay issuing credit memos to good accounts (like the WorldCom $30 million discount) and write-offs to bad ones. He would brief Wanserski, but Pavlo had the distinct impression his incoming boss wanted to leave the mundane details to his staff.11 It would be up to Pavlo to figure out how to carry all the bad debt on their books. He’d have to get even more creative.
