AI-powered hedge funds can now build a detailed financial thesis on your company faster than your IR team can schedule a response meeting. The Honeywell-Elliott engagement shows what happens when a CFO is prepared for that reality, and what it costs when the board is not.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/activist-investors-ai-shareholder-management

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Panama Canal restrictions, compounded by Iran-war trade disruptions in 2026, are compressing lead times and inflating landed costs for apparel buyers mid-season. This playbook shows CFOs how to read sell-through signals early, price markdown exposure before it accumulates, and protect gross margin when the buying calendar no longer has slack built into it.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/sell-through-markdown-risk-seasonal-buy

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When credit conditions tighten, the CFOs who survive are those who mapped their liquidity position before the squeeze arrived, not after. This playbook gives you a concrete sequence to protect short-term funding, diversify financing sources, and avoid the traps that catch most treasury teams off guard.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/liquidity-management-tight-credit-market

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An equity story is the single narrative that explains why your company deserves capital at a given valuation. Most fail not because the business is weak, but because the story confuses momentum with structural advantage.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/equity-story-investor-relations-cfo

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Unilever spent years running finance, sales, and supply chain planning in parallel silos, each optimised locally but disconnected at the seams. Its shift toward extended planning and analysis shows what xP&A integration actually requires in a business of that complexity.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/xpa-integration-finance-sales-operations-planning

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In late 2008, Chrysler's treasury team woke up to a commercial paper market that had effectively stopped functioning overnight. What happened next became one of the most instructive case studies in corporate liquidity management that business schools still use today.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/liquidity-financing-tighter-credit-market

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Valuing a carved-out entity sounds like standard M&A work, but the accounting complications specific to carve-outs routinely destroy deal value before the transaction even closes. This article breaks down the core mechanics of standalone financial statements, allocated cost stripping, and how to avoid the most common mispricing traps.

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Supply chain finance and dynamic discounting are two distinct tools that let companies extract cash from payment terms without touching credit lines. Understanding the mechanical difference between them, and when each one backfires, is where the real CFO value sits.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/supply-chain-finance-dynamic-discounting-working-capital

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Most scenario planning exercises produce tidy three-scenario decks that comfort boards and mislead decision-makers. This playbook shows how to build scenarios that actually change what your company does.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/scenario-planning-real-uncertainty-cfo

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Most CFOs sit on a significant cash reserve they have not yet recognized: the working capital trapped in their own operations. This playbook shows how to extract it systematically, without touching the credit facility or the dividend.

Read the full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/working-capital-optimization-strategic-liquidity

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