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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
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- Corporate Finance Explained | When Bitcoin Hits The Balance Sheet · 27 min · Episode 256What happens when a company puts Bitcoin on its balance sheet? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack how Bitcoin and other digital assets are changing…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Investor Relations and Guidance Strategy · 28 min · Episode 255What happens when a company reports strong results, but the stock still collapses? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack how public companies manage investor…
- Corporate Finance Explained | IPO Timing and Pricing · 22 min · Episode 254What separates a successful IPO from a public market disaster? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the mechanics of an initial public offering (IPO) and…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Building an FX Hedging Program · 22 min · Episode 253How do global companies protect their profits when exchange rates move against them? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down foreign exchange (FX) risk and…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Operational Restructuring: Resetting the Cost Base Before Crisis Hits · 23 min · Episode 252Why do some companies become more valuable after laying off thousands of employees? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore the financial logic behind…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Operating Leverage: How Cost Structure Drives Profit Volatility · 23 min · Episode 251What if a company's biggest competitive advantage is also its greatest financial risk? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down operating leverage and…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Enterprise Risk Management in Practice · 20 min · Episode 250In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and why many companies mistake risk reporting for actual risk management. Through…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Interest Rate Risk Management · 24 min · Episode 249What happens when interest rates rise faster than your business can adapt? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down one of the most overlooked risks in…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Customer Lifetime Value: The Ultimate Growth Metric · 15 min · Episode 248Can a company gain millions of customers and still be guaranteed to fail? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the unit economics behind sustainable…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Buybacks in the Excise Tax Era · 25 min · Episode 247Is a 1% tax enough to change how corporate America returns billions of dollars to shareholders? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore the economics of stock…
- Corporate Finance Explained | The Economics of Marketplaces: How Two-Sided Platforms Create Value · 23 min · Episode 246How can a company own almost nothing and still become one of the most valuable businesses in the world? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the…
- What's New at CFI | Financial Modeling Guidelines · 24 min · Episode 245Want to build financial models that other finance professionals can trust? In this episode of What's New at CFI, Meeyeon sits down with Duncan McKean, CFI's VP of Financial…
- Corporate Finance Explained | How Finance Builds a Credible 3 to 5 Year Model · 24 min · Episode 244What if the biggest reason companies miss their long-term goals isn't execution, but the plan itself? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down long-range…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Stock-Based Compensation · 26 min · Episode 243What if one of the biggest expenses in tech isn't actually cash? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we unpack the truth behind stock-based compensation and why it…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Crisis Communication: How Companies Maintain Trust Under Pressure · 23 min · Episode 242What separates companies that recover from a crisis from those that collapse overnight? In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we explore the role of crisis management…
- What's New at CFI | Advanced SQL for Data Analysts · 9 min · Episode 241SQL is one of the most valuable technical skills for finance professionals, business intelligence analysts, and data analysts. But once you've mastered the basics, how do you…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Free Cash Flow: The Metric That Truly Drives Valuation · 23 min · Episode 240What if the most important number in finance isn't revenue or net income, but the cash that's left over after a business pays for its own survival? In this episode of Corporate…
- Corporate Finance Explained | The Finance of the AI Buildout · 22 min · Episode 239What happens when the biggest AI companies in the world borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to build infrastructure before the demand is fully proven? In this episode of…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Tariffs, Trade Policy, and Reshoring: The Financial Lens · 22 min · Episode 238What if the biggest threat to corporate profitability isn’t a recession, a supply chain disruption, or a technological breakthrough, but a tax that changes overnight? In this…
- Corporate Finance Explained | Cost of Goods Sold · 21 min · Episode 237In this episode of Corporate Finance Explained, we break down the hidden mechanics of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and why the companies that master their costs often outperform…







