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☠️ Capital Structure Design III: Pick Your Poison

Aug 16, 2025

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18 min read

☠️ Capital Structure Design III: Pick Your Poison

Debt Is Cheaper Than Equity... If It Doesn’t Kill You

Capital Allocation

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Capital Structure Design II: Do you know what you need?

Aug 9, 2025

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19 min read

Capital Structure Design II: Do you know what you need?

Make the business earn it.

FP&A

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Capital Structure Design Part I: The Buffet of Funding Options

Aug 2, 2025

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15 min read

Capital Structure Design Part I: The Buffet of Funding Options

Not all money is equal. A practical guide to decode the real cost of capital

Leadership & Impact

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☠️ When Data Gets Weaponized

Jul 26, 2025

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18 min read

☠️ When Data Gets Weaponized

The next big corporate political battleground

The Board Room

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😨 Everything just changed

Jul 19, 2025

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16 min read

😨 Everything just changed

And how to survive a change in CEO...

The Board Room

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🤔 Who Really Runs the Business?

Jul 12, 2025

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20 min read

🤔 Who Really Runs the Business?

The Hidden Roles on the Invisible Org Chart

Leadership & Impact

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🤫 The Subtle Art of Giving A F*ck (About Politics)

Jul 5, 2025

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19 min read

🤫 The Subtle Art of Giving A F*ck (About Politics)

Kicking off a new series on the CFO’s role in organizational politics

FP&A

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🪢 The CFO’s ethical tightrope

Jun 28, 2025

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19 min read

🪢 The CFO’s ethical tightrope

The fine line between credibility and bullsh*t

FP&A

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🌉 A bridge too far

Jun 21, 2025

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20 min read

🌉 A bridge too far

How to construct a simple story that connects the shop floor to top floor

M&A

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🎵 Don’t go chasing waterfalls...

Jun 14, 2025

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18 min read

🎵 Don’t go chasing waterfalls...

Talk nerdy to me: The art and science of variance analysis

FP&A

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🤬 Why I hate rolling forecasts (and why I might be wrong)

Jun 7, 2025

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18 min read

🤬 Why I hate rolling forecasts (and why I might be wrong)

No-one ever talks about the cost of forecasting?

FP&A

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🏋️ No Pain, No Gain: Move The Needle With Business Reviews

May 31, 2025

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18 min read

🏋️ No Pain, No Gain: Move The Needle With Business Reviews

Spoiler: they should hurt a little

FP&A

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🗑️ Management accounts that don't suck

May 24, 2025

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19 min read

🗑️ Management accounts that don't suck

Make sure your management accounts are a truth serum

FP&A

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❌ Budget Blunders: Why Speaking Fluent Finance Won’t Get You Very Far

May 17, 2025

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20 min read

❌ Budget Blunders: Why Speaking Fluent Finance Won’t Get You Very Far

How Not To Blow the Budgeting Process

FP&A

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💀 Long Range Plans: Where Dreams Go to Die

May 10, 2025

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20 min read

💀 Long Range Plans: Where Dreams Go to Die

Where strategy and numbers collide

FP&A

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🧯 When FP&A Goes Wrong in a $100bn Business

May 3, 2025

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17 min read

🧯 When FP&A Goes Wrong in a $100bn Business

Introducing a new MEGA-series on FP&A

Reporting

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🧨 Ignite a Chain Reaction

Apr 26, 2025

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19 min read

🧨 Ignite a Chain Reaction

KPI doesn't have to stand for "Keep Pretending, Idiots"

Reporting

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🫣 Your Reporting Doesn’t Need to Suck

Apr 19, 2025

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18 min read

🫣 Your Reporting Doesn’t Need to Suck

The 8 Levers to Avoid Useless Reporting

Reporting

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🗨️ Spreadsheets don’t tell stories. People (and memes) do.

Apr 12, 2025

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19 min read

🗨️ Spreadsheets don’t tell stories. People (and memes) do.

Even Apollo use memes...

Reporting

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📊 Reporting is dead. Long live reporting.

Apr 5, 2025

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15 min read

📊 Reporting is dead. Long live reporting.

Introducing a new series on reporting business performance

Capital Allocation

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👜 Don’t Get Left Holding the Bag: Ensuring CapEx Delivers

Mar 29, 2025

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15 min read

👜 Don’t Get Left Holding the Bag: Ensuring CapEx Delivers

On Budget. On Time. On Spec. Every Time.

Capital Allocation

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🔥 Burn the Boats: Making CapEx Approval Decisions

Mar 22, 2025

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19 min read

🔥 Burn the Boats: Making CapEx Approval Decisions

And the importance of ‘emotional ownership’

Strategy

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🔎 CapEx vs. Crapex: Spotting the Winners

Mar 15, 2025

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19 min read

🔎 CapEx vs. Crapex: Spotting the Winners

Investing in projects that actually move the needle

Capital Allocation

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📩 Pushing the (CapEx) Envelope, But Not Your Luck

Mar 8, 2025

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18 min read

📩 Pushing the (CapEx) Envelope, But Not Your Luck

Allocating CapEx dollars with precision and purpose

Strategy

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🏭 CapEx is Not About Accounting

Mar 1, 2025

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16 min read

🏭 CapEx is Not About Accounting

CapEx decisions should be driven by growth, not GAAP

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