Crash Courses

Learn one skill. Walk out with something you can use at work.

Short, practical courses built around real finance tasks. Every lesson produces a practical output: a template, checklist, model, or script. Each course ends with a capstone you can plug into a real workflow.

Your instructor: Arnaud Lemaire
CPA. CMA. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. 15+ years in finance and ops.

€29/month (full library) • €29 per course (lifetime access) • Preview lessons free

Accounting & Auditing

Get the numbers right.

Reporting, close routines, controls, and auditing standards.

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Run Your Close Like a System, Not a Fire Drill

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Design a close that runs on process, not heroics. Build your close calendar, assign task ownership, set quality gates, and create escalation rules — all in 60 minutes. Walk out with a system you can deploy this month.

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Reconciliations That Clear (And Stay Clear)

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Build a reconciliation system that prevents backlog, not just clears it once. Templates by account type, aging discipline, root cause tracking, and a monthly rhythm that keeps your balance sheet audit-ready.

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Survive Your External Audit (From the Client Side)

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Get audit-ready without drowning your team. Organize your PBC list, set evidence standards, prep for walkthroughs, and build a communication rhythm that keeps auditors happy and your workload sane.

FP&A & Controlling

Set targets that drive action.

Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance management.

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The Variance Bridge That Explains Itself

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Build a one-page variance bridge that leadership reads once and understands. Revenue, margin, and EBITDA bridges with driver-based explanations — volume, price, mix, cost — plus commentary prompts that prevent follow-up questions.

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Forecast Refresh Without the Drama

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Run your quarterly forecast refresh in days, not weeks. The checklist, driver update sequence, assumption approval workflow, change log, and the summary that leadership actually reads. Stop the email chains and last-minute assumption changes.

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Standard Cost Governance for Manufacturing

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Take control of your standard costs before they become fiction. The process for maintaining BOMs and routings, governance rules for who changes what and when, the annual roll, and judgment frameworks for mid-year updates vs. variance absorption.

Finance & Economics

Fuel growth with capital.

Corporate finance, financial analysis, and the economic principles behind business decisions.

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Build a Capex Business Case That Survives Committee

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Build a business case your CFO will sign. The structure, assumption documentation, the downside section nobody wants to write, the decision memo format, and scenario framing that answers "what breaks and when" before the committee asks.

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Financial Due Diligence From the Inside

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Support an acquisition without getting lost. Navigate the data room, translate findings into model impacts, flag risks the deal team might miss, and set up Day 1 readiness. For the controller or FP&A manager pulled into a deal who needs to be useful fast.

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Treasury Essentials for Non-Treasury Finance Leaders

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Get conversant in treasury without becoming a treasurer. Cash positioning, bank relationship basics, FX exposure awareness, debt covenant checkpoints, and the red flags to catch when treasury topics land on your desk unexpectedly.

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Preview lessons are free. Full access with Community Pro at €29/month. Or buy any course for €29 lifetime.