Secretcfo

Published on: September 01, 2024

Although I've been a full time data guy for over a decade now, I do like to keep in touch with other parts of the business. Particularly finance, and the world of finance, have always been interesting. It might be from being born in the same year as Wallstreet premiered, or just growing up in the booming 90s where stocks were only going up to such an extent that it was regularly mentioned on the children's daily newscast.

Keeping one toe in the water I loved reading Michael Lewis's work like Liar's Poker, The Big Short, and of course Flash Boys, my favourite -- because it combines so completely the worlds of hard technology and finance. To keep updated on the more current state of affairs, and still gaining some background insight, I've been very happily subscribed to Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter for a couple of years now.

Since a couple of months I've been following Secret CFO who in his weekly newsletter deep dives on topics close to a CFO's heart, like "M***** F**** Cashflow", "From People to Profit: Using KPIs to Drive Performance", "🎨 Mastering the Art of Corporate Budgeting: A Step-by-Step Guide" -- and what it actually means for a business.

Together with actually setting up my own business last year this newsletter has offered the most practical insight into how an actual business is actually run from a finance point of view -- moreso than my MBA finance courses did. The subject matter might seem a little dry if you're not a finance person, but he manages to keep it interesting through anecdotes and relating it to actual business impact.

(Illustration DALL-E; text all mine)