Finance Embrace the New – AI From Excel to AI: how AI augments finance professionals and changes unit economics, drawing on the Secret CFO and Roger Martin.
Finance Finance Byte 21 – Netflix Grand Finale The drivers behind streaming economics: the customer-side and cost-side forks, and their impact on Netflix's financials.
Finance Finance Byte 20 – Netflix Episode 3 Netflix's shift from DVD sales to streaming: the business drivers, the streaming business model and its unit economics.
Finance Finance Byte 19 – Netflix Episode 2 Netflix's DVD-era business model mapped on the Business Model Canvas: value proposition, pricing and cost levers.
Finance Finance Byte 18 – Netflix Episode 1 Starting a Netflix case study on unit economics: why customer lifetime value matters and a brief history of the company.
Finance Finance Byte 17 – Customer Journey Key customer KPIs, CAC, ARPU and lifetime value, and the lessons from MoviePass for customer unit economics.
Finance Finance Byte 16 – Customer Unit Economics Customer-based unit economics: the key terms and how revenue and cost behave across the customer life cycle.
Finance Finance Byte 15 – Product-Unit Economics Product-based unit economics step by step: contribution per unit and the levers that raise contribution margin.
Finance Finance Byte 14 – Unit Economics - Intro What unit economics is, why it matters, and how to pick the right unit: customer-based or product-based.
Finance Finance Byte 13 – Breakeven Analysis How to find your breakeven point: start-up costs, fixed costs and contribution margin per unit, with a small-business example.
Finance Finance Byte 12 – Cost Structure & Behavior How a café owner's cost structure and cost behaviour shape pricing, product mix and profitability.
Finance Finance Byte 11 – Product Mix Contribution analysis across a product mix, why loss leaders exist, and the same logic from a café to Apple.
Finance Finance Byte 10 – Contribution Analysis Fixed vs variable costs, contribution and contribution margin, explained through a café business.
Finance Finance Byte 9 – Net Profit From gross profit to net profit: separating direct and indirect activities and the costs behind them.
Finance Finance Byte 8 – Gross Performance An income statement deep dive at the first level: how gross profit shows how efficiently a business runs its core activities.
Finance Finance Byte 7 – The Income Statement From first principles: listing and classifying a café's transactions to build an income statement.
Finance Finance Byte 6 – Coffee Expenses Costs and benefits for a café: operating expenses for same-year benefit, capital expenses for multi-year benefit, and the financial statements.
Finance Finance Byte 5 – Coffee Costing Following Jack's coffee shop: mapping business activities to costs and working out profit or loss.
Finance Finance Byte 4 – Jack's Coffee Meet Jack, a would-be café owner: how starting capital is invested and recorded as the first business transaction.
Finance Finance Byte 3 – The System Mindset The system mindset for finance: what a system is, first- and second-order effects, and why they matter for decisions.
Finance Finance Byte 2 – The Sixth Sense Why finance people develop a sixth sense for numbers, and the commercial instinct that comes with it.
Finance Finance Byte 1 Why finance is best placed to check whether a company creates value, and finance's role from start-up to running the business.
