GoFast.Finance/BC-MEDIUM-01: Drive Growth on Strong Margin & Cash

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[Commercial] Drive Growth on Strong Margin & Cash

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  • 9 Lessons

Bring customer economics to deal decisions: profitability, discounts, mix, and cash. Partner with sales to negotiate smarter, faster every week.

🎯 Stronger influence: Bring clear economics to pricing and mix conversations instead of opinions.

🤝 Better partnering: Align with Sales on assumptions and options before decisions escalate.

🏢 Higher quality growth: Improve decision quality so growth comes with margin and cash discipline.

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Who this is for

Commercial controller and FP&A analyst supporting pricing, discounts, customer economics, and margin reviews for a market scope.

Business unit controller and finance director needing a practical profitability view to steer commercial reviews and tradeoffs.

Prerequisites

Knowledge: Solid understanding of margin drivers and basic variance logic for revenue and costs.

Tools: Access to sales, pricing, discount, and cost data for customers or segments plus a spreadsheet tool.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Build a customer or segment profit view you can refresh.

  2. Quantify price, discount, and mix impacts on margin.

  3. Connect margin drivers to cash and working capital effects.

  4. Frame decision options with clear assumptions and guardrails.

CPE Information

  • Eligibility: currently not eligible

  • Watch time: about 3 hours

  • Total learning: about 4.5 hours

  • Estimated credits: 3.0

Contents

Module 1: Profit view foundation

Lesson 1: Define scope, decision questions, and profit pools
Lesson 2: Map revenue and cost drivers that matter
Lesson 3: Build a refreshable profit view with checks

Module 2: Margin levers and tradeoffs

Lesson 4: Model net price and discount mechanics
Lesson 5: Quantify price, discount, and mix impacts
Lesson 6: Run scenarios and capture tradeoffs

Module 3: Cash link, guardrails, and partnering

Lesson 7: Connect margin to cash and working capital
Lesson 8: Set guardrails and decision criteria for deals
Lesson 9: Frame options and embed into review cadence