Understand your Business: Earn More Money

Course details

If you use spreadsheets in your work, this course will revolutionize the way you look at data. If you "were" a startup, and are finding that Run is not the same as Start Up when money now has to come from cash flow, not investors, take this course!

Working hard in your business, there can be precious little time to work ON it, to make things better. When you do find time, trying to see what matters in columns and rows packed with too much data but too little meaning bites!

Do I have the cure? Not just how to keep the books, but how to know their meaning: everything you need to know to know when, whether, and where to act, and predict what will happen in the near future with confidence, so you can anticipate problems before they happen.

Starting with an overview of what will be learned, the course includes:

• An entertaining Primer on Financial Reports and Accounting Principles, if that is possible...
• In depth look at the problems of these reports as tools for operating a business
  • The Flaw of Averages
  • The Foibles of Percentages
  • And the Dangers in Limited Comparisons
• Then how to create reports that do work, quickly and easily using the same data, only transforming it visually to allow you to see the real context, what the data means and what is mostly likely to happen, so you manage it with your eyes on the road in front of you, not stuck in the rear view mirror.
• Many examples from real people like you.
• Lots of working together, in virtual real time, like the Khan Academy
• Independent exercises and study to help you nail how to do them.
• AND MORE

Based on a proven system with more than 80 years of successful application in a wide variety of businesses, packed with examples from sports, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and more, and step by step hands on practice, guided by a Master, you will learn to transform data from your existing reports in a few minutes with a flick of a pen or a mouse.

If Simon Sinek helps with the why, this course helps with the how. How to know with precision what you need to make things not bite, as in make more money and time in your life, and work, and enjoy it.

You will need a pencil, an eraser, some graph paper preferably, a straight edge, a calculator, a computer and spreadsheet software would be nice, but most of all, your uncomputer... your mind.

The course is made up of 45 classes, with over 6 hours of video, plus pdf's for study, supplementary materials, and an hour or two of independent practice to move you from first exposure to mastering the art of making wonderfully useful reports and how to apply them for breakthrough, magical results.