Building CFO-Ready Business Cases: A Practical Guide
The seven components of a CFO-ready business case, how to choose a discount rate and time horizon, answers to four common CFO objections and a readiness checklist.
Resources
Shorter practitioner reads on the fundamentals — what finance expects from a business case, which metric to lead with, and why spreadsheet models break. Each can be read in one sitting. For in-depth reference pieces, see the articles; for step-by-step playbooks, the guides.
The seven components of a CFO-ready business case, how to choose a discount rate and time horizon, answers to four common CFO objections and a readiness checklist.
When to lead with ROI and when with TCO, the common mistakes with each, and how to frame the numbers for the CFO, CIO, procurement and business sponsors.
A five-phase value selling framework from discovery to value realization, five techniques such as the cost of inaction, and the mistakes that undermine it.
Five ways spreadsheet business cases break, from inherited models to version-control problems, and a five-step path to replacing them.
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