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A week later, at the regular management meeting of Qiya Machinery Company, Liu Yibin announced the news of the annual financial audit. The directors present had already learned about it in various ways, so they were not too surprised.

"Next we welcome the audit team at Group Headquarters."

There was a commotion in the conference room. I thought the general manager was announcing the audit date today, but I didn't expect it to come so suddenly without warning.

The door of the conference room opened, and five people in suits and leather shoes entered one after another. The leader was a middle-aged man who looked about the same age as Liu Yibin, but looked younger. Very mature charm.

A secretary-like professional woman stepped forward and introduced, "This is Mr. Qiu Jiang, the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Zia Group. Your company's annual financial audit will be led by Mr. Qiu Jiang, a total of five people Members, a two-day audit will be carried out at Zia Machinery Company, and I hope everyone will cooperate."

Although it was a formal and solemn occasion, the crowd couldn't help whispering.As Yang Qili introduced to Lei Meng, usually Zia's audit team is composed of accountants, without senior leaders of the group, but this time a CFO was directly airborne, even Xu Yao was a little surprised.Only Song Sifan stirred the coffee cup calmly, as if he had expected it.

Liu Yibin was also a little surprised, and forced to stretch out his hand calmly, "Hello, I am the general manager of Qiya Machinery Company, Liu Yibin."

"Hi, it's our first meeting." Mr. Qiu Jiang didn't intend to announce his family name, but just reached out to shake his hand politely, "If it's possible, let's start."

"Okay." The audit team sat down one by one, and Liu Yibin turned on the projector.

According to the usual practice, before the audit, the general manager will hold a first meeting to report the company's financial and performance situation for the past year to the audit team, and introduce the director-level management team to the auditors, so as to facilitate subsequent targeted|communication.

The turnover of Zia Machinery Company this year is not optimistic. Although it seems that there is not much difference from previous years, the economy of China has developed rapidly in recent years. The headquarters of Zia Group also regards City B as the future Asia-Pacific economy. The center has invested huge financial and material resources.The current results of Zia Machinery Company obviously cannot satisfy the audit team.

After Liu Yibin's introduction, he asked tentatively, "Mr. Qiu Jiang, is there anything you want to say?"

"Oh, I'd like to hear from everyone here."

"Then everyone, please speak freely." Liu Yibin looked around, most of the people bowed their heads in silence, and a very few people were unmoved. He felt a little more at ease, and his words became much lighter, "Don't be restrained just because the review team is here. Whatever you say is for the development of the company!"

"Well, I have a little idea." The director of the marketing department raised his hand to signal, everyone's eyes immediately focused on him, and he calmed down, "When we ran the market, we found that the same industry as Ciguo Compared with the company, Zia's price is high. Although we use the best materials, the high price is natural, but in this era of cost-effectiveness, I think blindly making high-end products can only occupy a very small market market share, it is impossible to become the leader in the industry.”

Mr. Qiu Jiang nodded to signal him to continue, "So what's your suggestion?"

"My suggestion is to reduce the price of Zia to attract orders. In fact, the profit margin of the price we offer is really high. As long as we lower it a little, or choose suitable materials according to the needs of customers, and reduce the cost, I believe that with our Ziya's If you are famous, you can expand your business to the middle end and occupy more than half of the market share. In this way, although the profit margin has dropped, if the order can increase, the performance can still be greatly improved..."

"Nonsense!" Liu Yibin couldn't help scolding in a low voice, and directly interrupted his smooth talk, "We are taking a high-end route, how can we lower our value and become a cheap commodity! Market share is important, but we must not forget Our brand positioning, if we cut prices casually, do we think we are opening a Taobao store?"

The marketing director immediately fell silent and lowered his head embarrassingly.

Seeing that no one refuted and everyone remained silent tacitly, Liu Yibin nodded with satisfaction, but his face was still serious and heavy, "Then I will talk about my own views. I think that success depends on people." , the decline in performance in the past two years, the first thing I want to criticize is Xu Yao, the director of the sales department, for not mobilizing the enthusiasm of the sales department well, and the quality of the orders won is generally not high. It was very disappointing.”

Xu Yao listened expressionlessly, like a statue.

"Secondly, I want to focus on criticizing Song Sifan, the director of the project management department." Liu Yibin glanced at Mr. Qiujiang calmly, seeing that he was still listening with a smile, he felt relieved, "The project management department headed by Song Sifan , failed to perform their duties and communicate effectively with customers, resulting in the suspension of a large number of orders without reason, which caused huge losses to the company. Especially the previous Hengwei project, although Wang Fan has been dismissed, but as the department head , I think Song Sifan still has an unshirkable responsibility."

With sporadic smiles on Song Sifan's face, he was staring intently at the coffee cup in front of him, with a carefree attitude of not hearing anything outside the window.

"Therefore, the company has decided to leave Song Sifan without pay. If another large-scale project is suspended without reason, I hope you will take the blame and resign." He turned to Song Sifan and said in a solemn tone, "This is the company's decision. Your last chance, don't disappoint the company's trust in you."

Song Sifan smiled noncommittally, picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, blocking Mr. Qiujiang's looking and probing eyes.

"Okay, let's end today's first meeting of the group's financial audit. The meeting is over!"

Everyone stood up one after another, Song Sifan packed his things slowly, and walked out behind Xu Yao.

After walking far enough away from the conference room, Song Sifan lazily said, "President Xu!"

Xu Yao turned around and looked at him indifferently.

Song Sifan didn't mind his alienation, smiled lightly, and politely made a gesture of invitation, "May I buy you a cigarette?"

Xu Yao stood where he was, and Song Sifan also kept his posture still, waiting for his answer.Xu Yao pursed his lips, flicked his sleeves and walked towards the smoking room.

Song Sifan bent the corners of his lips imperceptibly, and followed in.After closing the door, he took out a delicate metal box, pushed open the lid, and handed it to Xu Yao, "I'm sorry, I only have this, let's make do with it?"

There are three dark brown cigars in the metal box, with a conspicuous red round LOGO on it.

Xu Yao reached out and took one, "Where are the cigar cutters?"

Song Sifan chuckled, "Mr. Xu is indeed an expert." He handed over a small drilled cigar cutter, and thought it was a small key ring if he didn't pay attention.

Xu Yao took it and cut the cigar neatly.Song Sifan took out a piece of cedar wood from the cigar box and tore it into strips, lit it with a long sulfur-free wooden match, and handed the burning cedar wood strip to Xu Yao, "I'm not used to using Blazertorch."

"It doesn't matter." Xu Yao put the cigar on the top of the cedar wood stick like a fluke, turned it lightly and lit it, and took two deep puffs before taking the first puff. The white smoke lingered in the mouth for a long time, with endless aftertaste.

Song Sifan also skillfully repeated his movements, narrowed his eyes and took a breath, "What do you think?"

Xu Yao lowered his head and slowly exhaled a mouthful of white mist, the room was immediately filled with the aroma of roasted tobacco, he was so confused that he couldn't see his expression clearly, only a pair of eyes were shining like cold stars, shining sharply.

"Good cigars."

Song Sifan didn't expect Xu Yao to be good at pretending to be stupid, he smiled, "You know I'm referring to more than that. As for cigars, Mr. Xu likes them, so I can give them to you."

"My opinion is the same as that of the general manager." Xu Yao lightly flicked his cigar, and the ash was neatly broken in the ashtray. He turned his head and turned his amber eyes slightly, "Could President Song have other ideas?"

Song Sifan leaned back with a cigar in his mouth, curled up lazily on the sofa, and said casually, "Guess?"

Xu Yao ignored his boring rhetorical question, and the two of them seemed to be puffing away leisurely without speaking.

"I know your hostility towards me." Song Sifan fiddled with the tobacco of the cigar, and opened the mouth first, "It's my fault that I secretly took pictures of Xu Weichen, that photo was just a temptation." He paused, and said with certainty, " With that photo, I confirmed one of my guesses."

"What guess?"

"Your feelings for Xu Weichen are deeper than what I guessed at the beginning." Song Sifan saw that Xu Yao was faintly showing signs of an explosion, so he didn't dare to continue teasing him, and lightly threw out his chips, "I know your plan , I can help you get what you want.”

Xu Yao put the short cigar next to the ashtray and let it go out quietly.

"I'm not as free as Mr. Song. I still have a lot of things waiting for me to go back, so I'm leaving first." He picked up the suit on the back of the sofa and walked out without hesitation.

When he opened the doorknob and stepped out with one foot, Song Sifan stopped him, "Xu Yao!"

"You and me," Song Sifan pointed to him, then nodded to himself, with a smile on his face, "It's the same kind of people."

Xu Yao snorted, closed the door and left.

With a smile on the corner of Song Sifan's mouth, he continued to enjoy this rare comfort.Sometimes men are easy to satisfy, all they need is a good cigar.

It seems that big fish will not take the bait so easily, it is time to increase some chips.

The author has something to say: The story of the wolf who eats chicken is based on the plot and supplemented by emotion. After thinking about it, this article should be based on emotion and supplemented by plot.

However, the protagonist Shou didn't appear in the whole chapter... Beg for Raymond's psychological shadow area.