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What exactly is GoFast.Finance and ‘full-stack finance’?
GoFast.Finance is a practitioner-first learning platform for finance, operations, and analytics people. We teach the full chain from transactions to decisions – with short videos, practical tools, mini-cases, and community. The goal: help you grow faster in your career and use finance for real-world good.
“Full-stack” means you see the whole system, not just the numbers. You learn how transactions become reports, how workflows run, which systems and tools matter, and how analysis turns into decisions and change. Finance, process excellence, and data/analytics are treated as one connected craft, not three separate silos.
Mainly for:
Controllers, accountants, FP&A and finance business partners.
Finance analysts, cost engineers, project controllers.
Ops, supply chain, and plant leaders who want to “speak finance” better.
Data/analytics or transformation roles working closely with finance teams.
You don’t need a fancy title: you just need to care about numbers, decisions, and how work actually runs.
The catalog is organised into 9 knowledge areas:
Accounting & Auditing
Budgeting & Controlling
Finance & Economics
Organizations & Systems
Data & Analytics
Reporting & Presentation
Strategy & Operations
Change Management & Continuous Improvement
AI & Automation
Each area has its own intro courses, deep dives, and (where relevant) certification prep.
No. The core catalog is work-first, built around real workflows and decisions – not exam blueprints. You can use the platform purely to improve your job, and if you later decide to sit an exam, some courses will help but they’re not marketed as “prep”. Dedicated CertPrep tracks are clearly labeled and structured directly from the official exam syllabi.
What’s inside the lessons, how they’re structured, and how deep they go.
Every area follows the same 3–3–3+cert architecture:
3 Free Intro courses – foundations and orientation.
3 Short Deep Dives – focused workflows (2–4h video each).
3 Long Deep Dives – bigger systems/operating models (4–8h video each).
Certification Prep – full exam-part coverage where a flagship exam exists.
Each non-cert course has a fixed pattern: 6, 12, or 24 lessons, with 10–20 minute videos.
A typical course includes:
Short video lessons (10–20 minutes) following one clear story spine.
Ready-to-use templates, checklists, or dashboards where relevant.
Mini-cases and practical tasks so you can apply what you learn.
MCQs or practice questions (especially for CertPrep and CPE courses).
Pointers to standards and high-quality references so you can go deeper.
Roughly:
Intro course: ~1–2 hours of video.
Short Deep Dive: ~2–4 hours of video.
Long Deep Dive: ~4–8 hours of video.
Real learning time is higher once you add reading and practice, but everything is built for busy professionals – you can stop, resume, and revisit as needed.
The lessons start from real work: month-end chaos, budget fights, data issues, confusing reports. Theory is there to explain what’s going on, but the focus is on workflows, decisions, and step-by-step playbooks. Every paid course is designed to deliver Time, Money, Career, and Sanity benefits, not just abstract knowledge.
You’ll see concrete examples with tools like SAP/ERP, Excel, Power BI, and planning/reporting stacks – always from a practitioner angle. The goal is to teach concepts you can adapt to your own stack, not to lock you into one vendor. When a course is tool-heavy (e.g., Power BI), it is clearly labeled so you know upfront.
CertPrep: Where a flagship exam exists (e.g., CMA), there are exam-branded courses built directly from the official CSO/blueprint, with domain-level courses, exam-style practice, and coverage maps.
CPE: All paid courses are designed as CPE-ready (50-minute hour, clear LOs, assessments, documentation). Formal credit and sponsor status depend on your professional body; details will be explained on each course page as they go live.
Free vs paid, subscriptions, à la carte, and team access.
Simple and transparent:
Free: intro courses + selected resources + public community posts.
Subscription: all current and future courses, templates, and community while your membership is active.
À la carte: buy individual courses or certification bundles with lifetime access to that content.
The free tier gives you:
Intro courses in key areas.
Access to public community discussions.
A taste of templates/resources to see how the approach works.
No credit card needed to start.
The subscription is the “all-inclusive” option:
Access to all current and future courses while you’re a member.
Full community library and discussions.
All templates and resources in the library.
There’s an early Founding tier with limited seats and a favourable price, then regular tiers (like “Plus”) as the catalog grows.
Yes. You can buy:
Individual Short or Long courses (lifetime access, including updates).
Certification prep bundles (e.g., one full exam part).
Stand-alone resources/templates from the Resources page if you only need a quick solution.
You can always move to membership later if you want broader access.
Yes. You can cancel your membership at any time from your account settings. Your subscription stops at the end of the current billing period. You keep:
Your free account.
Lifetime access to any à la carte courses or resources you purchased separately.
You simply lose ongoing access to member-only courses and community spaces after your membership ends.
Team and corporate options are planned as the catalog matures: shared access, cohorts, and possibly facilitation for month-end, budgeting, and analytics projects.
In the meantime, small teams can still sign up individually; if you need something specific, you can reach out and we’ll see what’s feasible.
Tell us, we’re listening. Reach out anytime and we’ll update the FAQ.