Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills

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Definition of 'Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills'

A slang term describing what a company's management does when it decides to trim small, trivial costs instead of cutting larger, more serious costs. All too often, managers will cut the difficult costs as a last resort, when in fact the company would be much better off if the larger costs had been dealt with earlier.
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Investopedia explains 'Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills'

For example, if management starts charging employees for coffee in the morning when the real solution to budgetary problems might be layoffs or discontinuing a certain line of business, then you know someone's chasing nickels around dollar bills!

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