Financial Management
Strategy tools for financial management.
7 tools
- Buy-Sell Hierarchy — Place a customer relationship on a five-level ladder, from interchangeable commodity supplier to indispensable strategic partner.
- Cost Management — Track, judge and cut costs deliberately, without touching what actually earns the revenue.
- Cost-plus Pricing — Add a fixed margin to production cost to set price. Simple, but blind to what customers would pay.
- Financial Modeling Software — Build a live model of the business so you can test an assumption before you bet real money on it.
- Six Step Profit Formula — Walk from target market through value, marketing, sales, cost and control - profit built by decision, not hoped for at year end.
- Value-Based Management — Run every decision through one test: does it raise the business's underlying value, not just this quarter's profit.
- Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) — Rebuild the budget from zero each cycle - every activity must justify its cost again, not just inherit last year's line.