FinPod
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Advance your career with the FinPod podcast from CFI. Dive into career stories and member successes, and stay ahead with insights from our latest courses. Get all the essentials for a successful career in finance without any fluff—just the facts you need to excel in your professional journey.
Episodes
- Corporate Finance Explained | Transfer Pricing and the Battle Over Global Profits
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained delves into transfer pricing, explaining how multinational corporations allocate profits across borders. It discusses the arm's length principle, profit shifting, and notable tax disputes involvi…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Inventory Economics: How Inventory Strategy Shapes Profitability
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained discusses inventory economics, explaining how inventory strategy directly impacts cash flow, margins, and competitiveness. It highlights that inventory is a capital allocation decision, not just…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Finance Leads Through a Recession
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained examines how recessions expose fragile companies and force finance teams into survival mode, using real-world case studies to illustrate liquidity crises, covenant traps, and strategic responses.
- Corporate Finance Explained | Capital Structure Optimization: Balancing Debt, Equity, and Risk
This FinPod episode explains capital structure, detailing how companies decide between debt and equity financing. It explores the risks and benefits of each, using case studies like Alphabet, Apple, Tesla, and Netflix, and examines the con…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Private Capital Raising: PE, VC, and Private Credit
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained discusses the rise of private capital markets over public markets for company funding. It details the roles of venture capital, private equity, and private credit in shaping business growth and v…
- What's New at CFI | PowerPoint and Pitchbooks
This episode of FinPod's "What's New at CFI" focuses on the critical finance skills of creating PowerPoint presentations and pitch books. It explains the purpose and structure of pitch books, contrasts them with standard presentations, and…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Internal Controls and Fraud Prevention: Protecting Financial Integrity
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained discusses internal controls and fraud prevention, explaining their importance for financial integrity, compliance, and trust. It covers preventive, detective, and corrective controls, real-world…
- What's New at CFI | SQL Fundamentals
Meeyeon Park and Joseph Yeates discuss the updated SQL Fundamentals course on What's New at CFI. They cover the course's focus, target audience, and SQL's relevance in finance, business intelligence, and data analytics.
- Corporate Finance Explained | Dividend Strategy: How Companies Decide When to Return Cash
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod discusses dividend strategy, examining how companies decide to return cash to shareholders. It covers the financial signals dividends send, payout ratios, free cash flow, and uses case…
- What's New at CFI | Strategic Problem Solving
This episode features Timothy Tiryaki, co-author of CFI's new Strategic Problem Solving course, discussing effective decision-making in complex, fast-changing environments. The conversation covers why traditional methods fail, the importan…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Banking Relationships
This episode details the crucial role of corporate banking relationships in company survival, highlighting how diversified banking networks provide essential credit, liquidity, and risk management, using examples like Silicon Valley Bank's…
- What's New at CFI | AI Prompting for Financial Analysis
This episode of What's New at CFI introduces the AI Prompting for Financial Analysis practice lab, focusing on how finance professionals can leverage AI tools responsibly and effectively. It covers the CAP-AJ framework and the importance o…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Governance: How Boards Shape Financial Outcomes
This episode of FinPod explains how corporate governance, focusing on board structure and oversight, critically impacts a company's financial success, capital allocation, and long-term value. It examines real-world examples to illustrate t…
- Members Spotlight | Albert Lee
This FinPod episode features Albert Lee, an FP&A leader and entrepreneur, discussing his career path from audit to strategic finance and entrepreneurship. He shares insights on the intersection of finance and AI, career development, and th…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Post-Merger Integration: Why Most M&A Deals Fail
This FinPod episode examines why most M&A deals fail, focusing on the post-merger integration phase. It contrasts successful integrations like Meta's acquisition of Instagram with failures such as Daimler-Chrysler, exploring how finance te…
- Corporate Finance Explained | ESG and Financial Materiality: What Actually Impacts Performance
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod analyzes ESG through a corporate finance lens, examining its impact on financial materiality, risk, cost of capital, and company valuation. It uses case studies and financial frameworks…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Companies Set Financial Targets
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod explores how financial targets influence corporate behavior, from hiring to risk-taking. It discusses the impact of poorly structured targets, using examples like Wells Fargo and Toyota…
- What's New at CFI | Strategic Problem Solving with Jeroen Kraaijenbrink
FinPod's "What's New at CFI" episode features Jeroen Kraaijenbrink discussing a new Strategic Problem Solving course. The discussion covers thinking frameworks, problem definition challenges, and tools for tackling uncertainty.
- Corporate Finance Explained | M&A Strategy: Why Companies Buy Other Companies
This episode of FinPod delves into the complexities of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), exploring the motivations behind these deals, the financial models used, and the significant risks involved. It examines successful and failed acquisiti…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Cost of Capital
This episode explains cost of capital, including WACC and EVA, and its role in determining if growth creates or destroys value. It uses case studies of PepsiCo, Microsoft, and AMC to illustrate the concepts and discusses how trust influenc…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Forecasting: Why Predictions Go Wrong
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained examines why corporate forecasts are often inaccurate due to human factors like incentives and cognitive bias, rather than just the models. It discusses common pitfalls such as sandbagging and th…
- Member Spotlight | Alex Murray
Alex Murray details his unconventional journey into finance, from studying History to becoming a UK-based financial analyst. He discusses self-learning, mentorship, ESG investing, and the practical application of CFI training and modern an…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Competitive Moats: How Companies Build Long Term Advantage
This FinPod episode explains competitive moats, the structural advantages enabling long-term company profitability. It details moat types like switching costs, network effects, and scale, using examples like Visa and Apple, and discusses h…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Dynamic Pricing: How Data Driven Pricing Protects Margins
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod delves into dynamic pricing, highlighting its role in margin protection and financial performance. It explains the 1% rule, explores case studies from airlines to SaaS, and discusses th…
- Corporate Finance Explained | The Economies of Scale
This episode of FinPod's Corporate Finance Explained breaks down the financial mechanics of economies of scale. It explores how fixed costs, variable costs, and operational leverage influence a company's efficiency and profitability as it…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Scenario Planning and Sensitivity Analysis in Uncertain Markets
This episode of FinPod explains scenario planning and sensitivity analysis for corporate finance professionals. It contrasts scenario planning with traditional forecasting, emphasizing its role in navigating uncertainty and making proactiv…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Capital Allocation Excellence: How Leaders Decide Where Money Goes
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod focuses on capital allocation, explaining how industry leaders decide where to invest money. It covers key metrics like ROIC and analyzes case studies from Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, A…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Project Finance and Funding Large Scale Investments
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod details project finance, a method for funding large infrastructure projects by isolating risk through special purpose vehicles and non-recourse debt. It covers how lenders assess projec…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Culture and Financial Performance
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod explores the direct link between company culture and financial performance. It examines how culture influences forecasting, capital allocation, and risk management, using examples from…
- Careers in Finance | Nirav Shah
Nirav Shah, founder and partner at Versor Investments, shares his journey from software engineering to quantitative finance on FinPod's Careers in Finance series. He details his transition, the development of expertise in systematic invest…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Cash Flow Forecasting
This episode of FinPod's Corporate Finance Explained series focuses on cash flow forecasting, explaining how a lack of liquidity, not just unprofitability, can lead to business failure. It covers identifying risks, managing different cash…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Zero-Based Budgeting
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod details Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB), a framework where every expense needs justification. It contrasts ZBB with traditional budgeting, explains its mechanics like decision packages and t…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Financial Due Diligence
Financial Due Diligence (FDD) investigates a company's financial health during acquisitions, focusing on 5 pillars: Quality of Earnings, Revenue and Customer Analysis, Working Capital and Cash Flow, Debt and Off-Balance Sheet Items, and Fo…
- Careers in Finance | Hayley Rosenlund
This episode of FinPod features Hayley Rosenlund discussing her extensive career in capital markets, including her transition from sales to executive coaching. Key topics include navigating a finance career, the impact of automation and AI…
- Corporate Finance Explained | The Finance Behind Corporate Sustainability
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod delves into the financial strategies behind corporate sustainability, discussing instruments like Green Bonds and Sustainability-Linked Loans. It also covers the five-pillar ROI framewo…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Corporate Culture Drives, or Destroys, Financial Performance
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained discusses the significant impact of corporate culture on financial performance. It details how elements like trust, psychological safety, and accountability influence productivity, decision-makin…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Spin Offs: Why Companies Break Up to Unlock Value
This episode of FinPod explains corporate spin-offs, where a company separates a business unit into a new independent entity. It covers the reasons for spin-offs, such as eliminating the conglomerate discount and optimizing capital structu…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Leveraged Buyouts Work: Inside Private Equity’s Most Powerful Tool
This episode of FinPod explains Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), a core private equity strategy. It details how significant debt is used to acquire companies, aiming to increase equity returns and improve operations, citing successes like Hilton…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Understanding Goodwill: The Intangible Asset
This episode of FinPod explains Goodwill, the intangible asset created during acquisitions representing the premium paid over fair market value. It covers the components of this premium, such as brand equity and synergies, and the accounti…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Inflation Impacts Strategy, Costs, and Capital Decisions
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod details how inflation systematically distorts corporate finance, making historical data obsolete and forcing a fundamental rewire of capital allocation, debt management, and pricing str…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Sports Franchises Make (and Lose) Money
This episode delves into the financial paradox of professional sports franchises, explaining how teams with billions in valuation can show negative annual cash flow. It covers key revenue drivers like media rights, stadium economics, and r…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Spin-Offs: How Breaking Up Creates More Shareholder Value
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod details how corporate spin-offs, where a parent company distributes subsidiary shares to shareholders, create value. Reasons include enhanced strategic focus, a "pure play" valuation ef…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Inflation Impacts Profitability & How Companies Adapt
This episode of FinPod's Corporate Finance Explained discusses the multi-faceted impact of inflation on corporate finance, including gross margin erosion, wage inflation, and operating expense creep. It also covers the structural effects o…
- What's New at CFI | Excel Data Visualization & Dashboards
FinPod's 'What's New at CFI' episode introduces a new course on Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards. Learn to transform raw data into impactful visuals and build executive-ready dashboards from scratch, covering chart mastery and highl…
- Corporate Finance Explained | The Business of Bankruptcy: How Companies Collapse and Come Back
This FinPod episode explains corporate bankruptcy, contrasting Chapter 7 liquidation with Chapter 11 reorganization. It details financial strategies like debt-for-equity swaps and DIP financing used for business survival and rebirth, citin…
- Member Spotlight | Marlon Uniada
Marlon Uniada shares his journey from an accidental accounting major in the Philippines to pursuing global finance roles, detailing his experiences with self-learning, remote work across time zones, and his ambition to work in internationa…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Stock Market Indices Shape Valuations and Strategy
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod details how major stock market indices like the S&P 500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ function. It explains their construction, the impact of index inclusion on corporate strategy, capital flo…
- What's New at CFI | Interest Rate Swap
This FinPod episode discusses the significant changes in the Interest Rate Swap (IRS) market following the discontinuation of LIBOR and the transition to new rates like SOFR. It covers the shift from OTC to exchange-traded swaps and demons…
- Corporate Finance Explained | The Financial Strategies of Subscription-Based Businesses
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod discusses the financial strategies of subscription-based businesses, covering key metrics like LTV:CAC, revenue recognition challenges, and examining case studies from companies such as…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Corporate Tax Strategies
This episode of Corporate Finance Explained on FinPod delves into corporate tax strategies, explaining how major companies legally minimize their tax burden using tools like deductions, transfer pricing, and holding structures. It also exa…