# CFO Secrets

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## Posts
- [⚽️ The club that survived its own balance sheet](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/manchester-united-lbo-finances): A 20-year financial history of Manchester United
- [📬  Come together: To centralize FP&A (or not)?](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/come-together-to-centralize-fp-a-or-not): And when benchmarking is useful, and when it's hopeless
- [📬  Self Dealing: When founders pay themselves too much](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/self-dealing-when-founders-pay-themselves-too-much): And separating costing from pricing...
- [ 🍿 The Great Unbundling](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/the-great-unbundling): Part IV of Building FP&A: Predictions for the future of FP&A
- [📬 Eton mess: When your CEO can't cashflow...](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/eton-mess-when-your-ceo-can-t-cashflow): And what to do when your PE sponsor's forecast is a work of fiction
- [🫵 The trouble with "business partners"](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/the-trouble-with-business-partners): Part III of Building FP&A: Sculpting the FP&A Team
- [🃏 Cashing out: The career risk of stepping back as CFO](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/cfo-early-semiretirement): Plus, why R&D is more poker and less chess.
- [🤫 Atomizing FP&A work](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/atomizing-fp-a-work): Part II of Building FP&A: The 7 Pillars
- [📬 Margin cosplay: Who's touching your BOMs?](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/solid-ground-hiring-a-cfo-to-build-the-machine-1): And what to do when your controller quits before you start
- [🤷 What even is FP&A?](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/what-even-is-fp-a): Part I of a new series: Building FP&A
- [📬 Solid ground: Hiring a CFO to build the machine](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/solid-ground-hiring-a-cfo-to-build-the-machine): And what to do when your CEO doesn't trust you
- [Handbrake off: The Growth CFO IV](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/handbrake-off-the-growth-cfo-iv): Building a growth-friendly finance function
- [📬 False Financialization: How to stop fake news infecting your decisions](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/false-financialization-how-to-stop-fake-news-infecting-your-decisions): How to use AI to write slop-free memos
- [Incremental thinking: The Growth CFO III](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/incremental-thinking-the-growth-cfo-iii): The economics of growth
- [📬 Jumping ship: Explaining why you left a bad PE sponsor](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/jumping-ship-explaining-why-you-left-a-bad-pe-sponsor): And teaching your CEO to think like a CFO.
- [Value Atoms: The Growth CFO II](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/value-atoms-the-growth-cfo-ii): How to make sure you grow the right thing
- [📬 Bootstrapping: Grow fast, pay yourself, or sleep well?](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/bootstrapping-grow-fast-pay-yourself-or-sleep-well): And is micro-PE as fun as it sounds?
- [🫡 Permission to Grow, Sir?](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/permission-to-grow-sir): A CFO's guide to growth. But first, should you even bother?
- [📬 Ready fire aim: kickstarting finance transformation](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/ready-fire-aim-kickstarting-finance-transformation): And how to talk about bad numbers...
- [Lock and Load: Working Capital Warfare V](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/lock-and-load-working-capital-warfare-v): The receivables, payables, and inventory tactics for cashflow
- [📬 Gone in sixty seconds: Speed-reading financial statements](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/too-big-to-fail-how-to-manage-increasing-responsibilities-as-cfo-1): And dealing with controlling founders...
- [Mind the Gap: Working Capital Warfare IV](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/mind-the-gap-working-capital-warfare-iv): Funding working capital (and avoiding the killer 'crack debt')
- [📬 Too big to fail: How to manage increasing responsibilities as CFO](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/too-big-to-fail-how-to-manage-increasing-responsibilities-as-cfo): And how to let future employers know why you're leaving a bad job
- [Firing Up the Flywheel: Working Capital Warfare III](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/firing-up-the-flywheel-working-capital-warfare-iii): Learn from business history and make your cashflow sing
- [📬 Work of art: Designing working capital for growth](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/working-capital-structure): And how to get friendly with your board
- [Making Waves: Working Capital Warfare II](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/making-waves-working-capital-warfare-ii): What the lunar cycle teaches us about cashflow
- [📬 Equal pay: Getting global comp policies right](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/mb-5-5): And reading the news like the Secret CFO
- [Hiding in Plain Sight: Working Capital Warfare I](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/hiding-in-plain-sight-working-capital-warfare-i): Working capital is not what you think it is
- [📬 Building blocks: The future tech stack](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/cfo-tech-stack): And using the internet to grow your career, Secret CFO-style
- [The Economics of AI Adoption: AI for CFOs IV](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/the-economics-of-ai-adoption-ai-for-cfos-iv): Where the hell is the ROI in AI?
- [📬 Running on empty:  What to do when burnout catches up with you](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/running-on-empty-what-to-do-when-burnout-catches-up-with-you): And putting storytelling tactics into action
- [Buy, Build or Borrow : AI for CFOs III](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/buy-build-or-borrow-ai-for-cfos-iii): Let’s build the playbook for implementing AI at scale
- [📬 First steps: Folding-in AI without breaking what works](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/first-steps-folding-in-ai-without-breaking-what-works): And can wartime and peacetime leaders coexist?
- [Inside the Black Box: AI for CFOs II](https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/inside-the-black-box-ai-for-cfos-ii): Why AI Makes Things Up & How to Stop It