Curriculum designed for real operating decisions

Learn the financial language your business already speaks

This curriculum is built for Australian founders, GMs, and senior managers who want to interpret financial signals with speed and confidence. We focus on what changes outcomes in the next 30–90 days: cash timing, contribution logic, working capital friction, and the hidden relationship between growth choices and risk exposure.

Short modules
7–12 minutes
Practical drills
Real scenarios
Outcome tools
Reusable templates
Curriculum snapshot
Foundation Layer
Start here

A clean financial map of your business model: what creates value, what consumes cash, and where the earliest risk signals usually appear.

  • Leadership-level P&L reading
  • Cash vs profit truth
  • Cost structure clarity
Decision Metrics
Weeks 3–6

Learn the KPIs that prevent “late surprises”: contribution margin, payback, churn impact, and working capital compression.

  • Unit economics snapshots
  • Pricing stress checks
  • 3-driver forecasting
Board-ready narrative
Advanced

Build a confident storyline for leadership and investors: what changed, why it matters, what you control next, and what the plausible downside looks like.

Three tracks for different leadership needs

The tracks share a common foundation but diverge based on your operating priorities. You can complete one path deeply or combine modules across tracks to fit your business stage.

Core

Founder Finance Essentials

A fast, high-impact route to financial confidence. You’ll learn how to interpret results beyond accounting labels, identify profit leaks, and understand what changes cash outcomes without drowning in technical detail.

Cash map Margin layers Working capital Risk flags
Growth

Scaling With Control

Designed for leaders who feel growth pressure. Learn how to keep marketing, hiring, and expansion decisions honest using unit economics, payback logic, and realistic scenario boundaries.

LTV vs CAC Churn economics Pricing discipline Headcount guardrails
Strategic

Board & Investor Readiness

Move from reporting to leadership storytelling. This track helps you translate metrics into strategic trade-offs, demonstrate control in uncertainty, and align your team around measurable priorities.

Investor clarity Scenario narratives Capital planning Resilience framing

Module map

Each module includes a short lesson, a leadership checklist, and a micro-exercise. The point is to help you move from “I understand the concept” to “I can use this in Monday’s meeting.”

Stage 1: Financial foundations
Weeks 1–2
  • The leadership P&L: what matters, what misleads
  • Cash vs profit: detecting timing delusions
  • Cost anatomy: strategic spend vs silent waste
  • Revenue quality: separating growth from volatility
Stage 2: Cash truth & working capital
Weeks 2–4
  • Runway without panic: building a calm resilience view
  • Receivables reality: collection speed as a strategy lever
  • Inventory tension: growth, discounts, and cash locks
  • Supplier power: negotiating time, not just price
Stage 3: Margin mechanics
Weeks 4–6
  • Contribution margin for non-finance leaders
  • Pricing stress tests in three variables
  • Fixed vs variable clarity for real decisions
  • Service vs product margin patterns
Stage 4: Unit economics & growth control
Weeks 5–8
  • LTV and CAC without fantasy assumptions
  • Payback logic for marketing and sales teams
  • Cohort thinking for retention and expansion
  • Growth guardrails for headcount and product spend
Stage 5: Forecasting discipline
Weeks 7–10
  • The 3-driver forecast that fits on one screen
  • Scenario bands: optimistic, base, defensive
  • Leading indicators that predict outcome shifts
  • How to update forecasts without redoing everything
Stage 6: Board-ready narrative
Weeks 9–12
  • Turning numbers into a clear story of control
  • Risk framing that builds trust
  • Capital planning for uncertainty
  • Decision memos and KPI dashboards

What you’ll build

By the end of the core route you will have a small but powerful leadership pack you can reuse: a runway view, margin map, and a three-driver forecast that keeps decisions grounded.

  • Monthly finance rhythm checklist
  • Profit leak review sheet
  • Cash pressure early-warning cues

Team alignment exercises

Financial clarity becomes real when the whole leadership team shares a common decision language. We provide short workshops you can run internally to align on trade-offs.

  • Growth vs resilience mapping
  • Marketing and ops KPI handshake
  • Cost ownership clarity

Designed for calm confidence

The curriculum intentionally avoids complicated math when it does not improve decisions. The objective is not perfect forecasting, but earlier, more confident action.

  • Clear assumptions
  • Small-model discipline
  • Action-first interpretations

Get a personalised learning route

Tell us what you’re trying to protect or improve. We’ll send a short recommended path based on your stage, plus three modules that will deliver the fastest clarity. This form is a client-side demo and does not send data to a server.