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Explainers and worked examples on financial due diligence, audit and controls, and valuation — and how finance teams turn raw data into defensible, fully sourced work.
Finance operationsHow to make a board-ready financial presentation with AI
A step-by-step guide to turning raw trial balances, budget files, and GL exports into a board-ready financial presentation where every figure links back to its source.
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Finance operationsWhat is a cash flow statement?
A cash flow statement shows how much cash a business generated and spent over a period, split into operating, investing, and financing activities. The three sections, direct vs. indirect method, how the indirect method reconciles net income to the change in cash, a worked example, free cash flow, and the statement's limits.
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Finance operationsWhat is financial analysis?
Financial analysis turns financial statements into ratios, trends, and comparisons that support a decision — lending, investing, or managing. The three core techniques (ratio, horizontal, vertical), the four ratio families with formulas, a worked example, who uses it and why, and the limits of a backward-looking view.
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Finance operationsWhat is an income statement?
An income statement — also called a profit and loss statement or P&L — shows revenue minus costs and expenses, arriving at net income over a period. The line-item waterfall, single-step vs. multi-step formats, revenue recognition, a worked example with margins, and what accrual accounting hides.
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Finance operationsWhat is a balance sheet?
A balance sheet reports what a company owns, owes, and retains for owners as of one date, built on Assets = Liabilities + Equity. The three components, standard format, a worked example with ratios, why book value isn't market value, and the statement's honest limits.
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Finance operationsWhat is a 13-week cash flow forecast?
A 13-week cash flow forecast is a rolling, week-by-week view of cash in and out over the next quarter — the tool finance teams use when liquidity matters more than profit. How to build one step by step, where AI removes the weekly grind, and a live cash-runway example with scenario toggles.
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Finance operations10 AI tools to run an advisory firm solo
You don't need a team of ten to launch an advisory firm anymore — you need the right AI on each job, and one tool for the client work you can't get wrong. The stack a solo founder can run, stage by stage, from client deliverables to admin.
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Finance operationsBest AI for month-end close in 2026: match the tool to your bottleneck
The month-end close is one workflow, but the thing slowing yours down is specific. A guide to finding your bottleneck — deliverables, reconciliation volume, coordination, or the ERP — and the AI built to clear each one (MacrosLM, BlackLine, FloQast, and more).
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Finance operationsBest AI for FP&A teams (2026)
The AI worth knowing for FP&A in 2026, by category — agentic workspaces that produce finished analysis and deliverables (MacrosLM), planning platforms (Anaplan, Planful), and Excel-native layers (Datarails) — plus a live 13-week cash-forecast example and how to choose.
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