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📬 Breaking Bad News: When, who, and how to handle it

Aug 5, 2025

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16 min read

📬 Breaking Bad News: When, who, and how to handle it

And can quarterly closes work?

CFO Role

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📬 The Pressure Cooker: My philosophy on handling the stress

Jul 22, 2025

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15 min read

📬 The Pressure Cooker: My philosophy on handling the stress

And a complete framework for monthly business reviews in start ups

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

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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🗑️ 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

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

Case Studies

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🔍 Dissecting the 10K

Nov 2, 2024

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20 min read

🔍 Dissecting the 10K

The numbers never lie ...

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Reporting

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🥰 How to Get Your Business to Care About Cashflow

Oct 28, 2023

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17 min read

🥰 How to Get Your Business to Care About Cashflow

And what metrics and reporting to use

FP&A

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🪄 Mastering Monthly Financial Reviews: 11 Key Principles

Jun 17, 2023

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15 min read

🪄 Mastering Monthly Financial Reviews: 11 Key Principles

... and the role feedback loops play in the FP&A cycle

FP&A

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🔐 The Power of KPIs: Unlocking Performance in a Complex Business

Jun 3, 2023

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15 min read

🔐 The Power of KPIs: Unlocking Performance in a Complex Business

... and how to get 200,000 people pulling together to win

Reporting

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1️⃣1️⃣ 11 ways to make your management accounts better

Feb 17, 2023

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9 min read

1️⃣1️⃣ 11 ways to make your management accounts better

And how to use them to drive cash flow in your business

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