Juan: I'm really excited about the break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check of our new line of fat-free Delicious Delight donuts.

Diane: Me too. But before we break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check, we'd better make sure this product line is going to be profitable.

Juan: I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations. Take a look.

Diane: I see you've estimated $2 million for the new equipment. Where did you get that figure?

Juan: That's an break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check based on some equipment I bought last year.

Diane: You're going to need break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check that. Using old esti­mates can get us in hot water.

Juan: No problem. I'll get on the phone with the manufacturer in Dallas and break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check.

Diane: Do you have a sense for market demand? We should get the forecasts from the marketing department before we crunch the numbers.

Juan: We don't have those yet. Mary from marketing said maybe we'd have them next week.

Diane: It just blows my mind when marketing people want us to run numbers, and they don't bring us the information we need!

Juan: If we end up in the red on this project, it's going to be break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check, not ours. They're the ones with P&L* responsibility!

Diane: Our CFO* won't give this project the green light until he sees all the numbers. If it doesn't look like we'll make money or at least break eveneducated guessget a price quotego any furtherlaunchtheir heads on the chopping blockto double-check, he'll pull the plug on the project.

*P&L - profit & loss.

* CFO - chief financial officer.