Amazon gets paid before it pays its suppliers. Here’s the machine behind it.

A negative cash conversion cycle means your suppliers finance your growth for free. I break down Amazon’s real 2024 numbers to show how the machine works, and how to measure yours.

Sales FP&A: measure the funnel in money and the forecast argument ends

Finance and sales argue about one number. The fix isn’t a better forecast, it’s measuring all four funnel stages in dollars. I walk through the value pipeline funnel from my guide.

What FP&A actually does: a map of the job, department by department

“Business partnering” stays a buzzword until you can say what it means with Sales versus HR. I walk through the FP&A role map from my guide, one department at a time.

Procurement has six steps. Finance belongs in every one of them.

Procurement thinks finance shows up twice: to approve the budget and complain later. I walk the source-to-pay chain from my guide and show the FP&A work hiding in every link.

The two-way table that shows what your plan can survive

Somebody always asks “what if growth comes in lower?” A two-way sensitivity table answers before they ask. I walk through the exact table from my mini-lesson, cell by cell.