ABSTRACT
Critical resources have either been defined by being close to running out of capacity due to increased demand from the market or as resources where quick increases of temporary capacity are possible whenever necessary but at significant expense. Adding ways to generate available cash, which is the same as adding capacity to a resource, should consider higher costs of money and other short and long-term impacts on the available cash that directly impact purchasing and all other operations. When long-term ideas are analyzed, then cash might easily become a critical resource, certainly when ideas requiring significant investments are considered. The obvious problem with cash, when treated as a resource, it is money, which is the key metric used to accept or reject any decision under consideration. This duality of cash, being a resource on one hand, and the metric of the goal on the other hand, might be confusing.
