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Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Spin Offs: Why Companies Break Up to Unlock Value
Corporate success is often measured by growth and diversification, but for many conglomerates, being too big leads to a "conglomerate discount." This is the moment whe...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Leveraged Buyouts Work: Inside Private Equity’s Most Powerful Tool
The Leveraged Buyout (LBO) is one of the most powerful and high-stakes tools in modern finance. It is the primary engine of the private equity (PE) industry, where a m...
Corporate Finance Explained | Understanding Goodwill: The Intangible Asset
In the high-stakes world of M&A, Goodwill is arguably the most important yet invisible asset on a modern balance sheet. It represents the "engine of ambition," but as ...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Inflation Impacts Strategy, Costs, and Capital Decisions
Inflation is no longer just a macroeconomic headline; it is a systematic distortion of the corporate financial engine. For finance teams, high inflation makes historic...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Sports Franchises Make (and Lose) Money
Professional sports franchises are some of the most recognizable brands on earth, yet many operate with negative annual cash flows. This deep dive moves past the score...
Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Spin-Offs: How Breaking Up Creates More Shareholder Value
In finance, success often means getting bigger, yet time and again, the market cheers when a huge company decides to intentionally break itself up. Why does spinning o...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Inflation Impacts Profitability & How Companies Adapt
Inflation is a brutal, immediate pressure point on corporate finance, forcing CFOs and analysts to completely overhaul their operating models. In this episode of Corpo...
What's New at CFI | Excel Data Visualization & Dashboards
Excel Data Visualization & Dashboards: Turn Raw Data into Executive-Ready StoriesExcel is the foundational tool for analysis, but simply having data isn't enough; you ...
Corporate Finance Explained | The Business of Bankruptcy: How Companies Collapse and Come Back
FinPod: Corporate Bankruptcy Strategy - Reorganization vs. LiquidationWhen a major corporation files for bankruptcy, it’s not always the end, it's often a high-stakes ...
Member Spotlight | Marlon Uniada
CFI Member Spotlight: From Local Accounting to Global Finance with MarlonMarlon's journey is a powerful testament to the value of self-directed learning and global amb...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Stock Market Indices Shape Valuations and Strategy
FinPod: The Hidden Power of Stock Indices: S&P 500, Dow, & Corporate StrategyEveryone sees the headlines ("The S&P 500 is up"), but few understand the mechanics behind...
What's New at CFI | Interest Rate Swap
FinPod: Interest Rate Swaps Masterclass: Modeling SOFR & The End of LIBORThe Interest Rate Swap (IRS) market, the biggest derivative contract in the world, has undergo...
Corporate Finance Explained | The Financial Strategies of Subscription-Based Businesses
FinPod: Subscription Economics: Mastering LTV, Churn, and Recurring RevenueThe Subscription Economy has fundamentally reshaped corporate finance, moving the focus from...
Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Tax Strategies
Why do profitable giants like Apple and Amazon report billions in earnings yet often pay surprisingly low effective tax rates (ETR)? On this episode of Corporate Finan...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Companies Manage Currency Risk
If you're a company operating globally, foreign exchange (FX) risk is a significant threat that can instantly erode profits and derail strategic forecasts. In this epi...
What's New at CFI | Excel Skills for Professionals Specialization
Excel is the universal language of finance and the critical foundation that new technologies, including AI, build upon. But how do you go from simply "knowing" Excel t...
Corporate Finance Explained | The Rise of Corporate Venture Capital: How Companies Invest Like VCs
Your company is launching its own corporate venture capital (CVC) fund. Suddenly, traditional financial models don't apply. Corporate Venture Capital is a unique, high...
Member Spotlight | Alexandra McLaren
On this episode of CFI Member Spotlight on FinPod, we are thrilled to host Alexandra McLaren, a Manager at EY Parthenon specializing in M&A transaction diligence and b...
Corporate Finance Explained | The Finance Behind Mega Acquisitions
FinPod: The Billion Dollar Question: How Corporations Pay for Massive Acquisitions (M&A Financing)When a Fortune 100 company buys another for tens of billions, how doe...
What's New at CFI | Communication and Presentation Skills for Finance Professionals
FinPod: Communication & Presentation Skills for Finance | Why Soft Skills are Your Career AcceleratorTechnical skills are essential, but if you can't communicate your ...
