The Five Numbers a Scaling Founder Should Recite From Memory
The five financial KPIs a scaling founder should know by heart: gross margin, cash runway, debtor days, revenue per head and pipeline coverage.
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The Price Rise You’re Too Scared to Make
Raising prices is usually the fastest way to improve margin. Why founders hold back, and four questions to answer before your next rise.
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Redundancies, Rate Hikes, and Resilience: It’s Okay to be a Human Before a CEO
As a frequent writer on entrepreneurship, I spend a lot of time looking at the “macro”—the big numbers, the global shifts, the “tectonic plates” of the economy. But as a Fractional CFO and Founder of WrightCFO, I am also working with CEOs, in the “micro” every single day. Right now, those two worlds are colliding…
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Finance Transformation Lessons from History: Why the CFO Must Fund Transformation (Before the Cannons Arrive)
(The Historian’s Ledger, Vol. I: The Siege of Constantinople, 1453) We are constantly bombarded with conversations about the Future CFO, finance transformation, the future of AI, and the future economy. It’s exhausting. Frankly, this obsession with what’s coming next often makes us lose sight of the timeless, fundamental truths. My solution? Stop staring anxiously at…
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Beyond the Gloom – Your CFO Compass in a Crazy World
Don’t Just Survive the News, Master It like a CFO. Your Future-Proof Business Starts Here. Let’s face it, picking up a newspaper or flicking on the news lately feels less like staying informed and more like bracing for impact. Geopolitical tremors in Ukraine and the Middle East, trade wars sparking up like bad broadband, and…
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The # 1 Critical Mistake in Chasing Growth: A CFO’s Guide to Profit
In the world of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the drumbeat for growth is often relentless. We’re conditioned to believe that a rising turnover is the ultimate barometer of success and that includes many CFOs. But more sales, more clients, more reach – these are the metrics frequently celebrated. But what if this relentless pursuit…
