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Learning with Your Business
SL-03 · Business finance
Use your own business as the case study. You will map your business model to your accounts, read your monthly results the way a finance professional does, find the drivers of profit and cash, and build a 90-day improvement plan with targets, KPIs and a monthly learning loop.
Who it's for
Business owners, founders and managers who want to understand and improve their own business through its numbers.
What you'll be able to do
- Map the building blocks of a business model to specific lines in the accounts
- Analyse monthly results as percentages of sales and explain the main movements
- Calculate contribution margin and break-even and test price, volume and cost scenarios
- Identify the timing drivers that tie up or release cash
- Build a prioritised improvement plan with SMART targets, KPIs and a monthly review loop
Lessons
- 1Mapping your business model to the numbersreading
- 2Reading your own accountsreading
- 3Finding the drivers of profit and cashreading
- 4Building your improvement planreading