All Episodes
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Corporate Finance Explained | When Bitcoin Hits The Balance Sheet
What happens when a company puts Bitcoin on its balance sheet? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack how Bitcoin and other digital assets are chang...
Corporate Finance Explained | Investor Relations and Guidance Strategy
What happens when a company reports strong results, but the stock still collapses? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack how public companies manag...
Corporate Finance Explained | IPO Timing and Pricing
What separates a successful IPO from a public market disaster? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the mechanics of an initial public offerin...
Corporate Finance Explained | Building an FX Hedging Program
How do global companies protect their profits when exchange rates move against them? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down foreign exchange (FX...
Corporate Finance Explained | Operational Restructuring: Resetting the Cost Base Before Crisis Hits
Why do some companies become more valuable after laying off thousands of employees? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore the financial logic behi...
Corporate Finance Explained | Operating Leverage: How Cost Structure Drives Profit Volatility
What if a company's biggest competitive advantage is also its greatest financial risk? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down operating leverage...
Corporate Finance Explained | Enterprise Risk Management in Practice
In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and why many companies mistake risk reporting for actual risk management. T...
Corporate Finance Explained | Interest Rate Risk Management
What happens when interest rates rise faster than your business can adapt? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down one of the most overlooked ris...
Corporate Finance Explained | Customer Lifetime Value: The Ultimate Growth Metric
Can a company gain millions of customers and still be guaranteed to fail? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the unit economics behind susta...
Corporate Finance Explained | Buybacks in the Excise Tax Era
Is a 1% tax enough to change how corporate America returns billions of dollars to shareholders? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore the economic...
Corporate Finance Explained | The Economics of Marketplaces: How Two-Sided Platforms Create Value
How can a company own almost nothing and still become one of the most valuable businesses in the world? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down t...
What's New at CFI | Financial Modeling Guidelines
Want to build financial models that other finance professionals can trust? In this episode of What's New at CFI, Meeyeon sits down with Duncan McKean, CFI's VP of Fina...
Corporate Finance Explained | How Finance Builds a Credible 3 to 5 Year Model
What if the biggest reason companies miss their long-term goals isn't execution, but the plan itself? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down lon...
Corporate Finance Explained | Stock-Based Compensation
What if one of the biggest expenses in tech isn't actually cash? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack the truth behind stock-based compensation an...
Corporate Finance Explained | Crisis Communication: How Companies Maintain Trust Under Pressure
What separates companies that recover from a crisis from those that collapse overnight? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore the role of crisis m...
What's New at CFI | Advanced SQL for Data Analysts
SQL is one of the most valuable technical skills for finance professionals, business intelligence analysts, and data analysts. But once you've mastered the basics, how...
Corporate Finance Explained | Free Cash Flow: The Metric That Truly Drives Valuation
What if the most important number in finance isn't revenue or net income, but the cash that's left over after a business pays for its own survival? In this episode of ...
Corporate Finance Explained | The Finance of the AI Buildout
What happens when the biggest AI companies in the world borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to build infrastructure before the demand is fully proven? In this episo...
Corporate Finance Explained | Tariffs, Trade Policy, and Reshoring: The Financial Lens
What if the biggest threat to corporate profitability isn’t a recession, a supply chain disruption, or a technological breakthrough, but a tax that changes overnight? ...
Corporate Finance Explained | Cost of Goods Sold
In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the hidden mechanics of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and why the companies that master their costs often out...
Corporate Finance Explained | Private Credit: How Non Bank Lending Is Reshaping Corporate Finance
What if the next financial crisis isn’t hiding inside the banking system, but outside of it? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack the explosive gr...
Corporate Finance Explained | Executive Dashboards
What if the most powerful tool in a company isn’t the CEO, the strategy deck, or the financial model, but a handful of metrics on a dashboard? In this episode of Corp...
Corporate Finance Explained | AI in Corporate Finance
What if the biggest risk to your finance career isn’t AI replacing you... But someone else is using AI better than you? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained,...
Corporate Finance Explained | Debt Refinancing Strategy
What happens when a company’s debt becomes its biggest strategic risk? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the hidden mechanics of corporate ...
Corporate Finance Explained | Treasury and Liquidity Management
What if a company can look wildly profitable on paper… and still collapse in 48 hours? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack the hidden world of co...
Corporate Finance Explained | Financial Covenants: The Hidden Rules That Shape Corporate Flexibility
What if the most powerful force controlling a corporation isn’t the CEO or the market… but a few lines buried deep inside a loan agreement? In this episode of Corporat...
Corporate Finance Explained | Lease vs Buy: How Smart Companies Optimize Asset Ownership
What if leasing an asset is actually more dangerous than buying it outright? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down one of the most important de...
Corporate Finance Explained | Divestitures and Asset Sales: When Selling Creates More Value
What if the smartest growth strategy for a company is to sell one of its best businesses? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the hidden logi...
Corporate Finance Explained | Why Treasury Needs Strategic Banking Partners
What would happen to your company if its primary bank disappeared overnight? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the hidden architecture of c...
Corporate Finance Explained | When the Bonus Pool Eats the Strategy
In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the hidden mechanics of executive compensation and how poorly designed incentives can quietly distort dec...
