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S.T.O.R.Y. framework for Finance

(I'll need your help for the Y, check the end)

Select your message
Target your audience
Organize your thoughts
Review your visuals
Yield to questions

These

The worst you can do as a Finance Professional is to 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁

Accounting doesn't speak for itself 👊

Charts are like 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀

If you must explain them, they must be bad!

Because there is nothing worst than using a graph to be 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀

Finance stories are like being a chef in a restaurant 🧑‍🍳

Reporting will provide prepared ingredients only

And at best provide you with the recipe

Know everything you need about 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 📈

and build your sexy line chart in Excel 𝗶𝗻 𝟴 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀

No surprise: we Finance Professional work

𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀?

Don't❗Here's something that 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂

I know how 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 it can be to work on PowerPoint when you were only trained

Don't use humor in your financial presentation

That's not a joke 👇

I often hear that advice

Start your presentation with a joke!

Sorry, but I don't

Cheat Sheets are everywhere

But there are things on which you cannot cheat

It's pretty trendy on Linkedin to have cheat sheets

And there's no shame

I went into 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 as a Finance Professional

And one thing I can say from that 👇

It's that it has brought me 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴

Tutorial - PowerPoint rehearse with coach!

You want to practice but no one's available? 👇

Use technology to your advantage

Practicing before a presentation is key
1️⃣

Everybody loves to hate McKinsey *

But there are 3️⃣ they do better than us

And I am not speaking about how much they bill

Build your sexy charts in Excel

All the steps for the major graphs for Finance

If you take the default Excel Charts, there is one

Charts are like 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀

If you must explain them, they must be bad!

Because there is nothing worst than using a graph to be 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀

20 Deloitte consultants followed the 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺

And the least we can say is they loved it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This week, I had the great

Yesterday, I had the chance to attend a great FP&A event

And also the chance to meet Larysa Melnychuk in person.

Every now and then,

BEST OF 2023 # 2 - EVERYTHING you can do in Powerpoint 👇

I asked some months ago and PowerPoint remains the # 1

The Finance Copilot - starring Nicolas Boucher

New training to boost your finance team partnering skills

"Finance people are business people with finance expertise"

Last week,

FP&A's Future: Presentation Skills > Spreadsheets

Times are changing

And there is no way we will turn back
❌ Crunching numbers
❌ Building reports
❌ Follow up results

Everybody's telling you to show your Finance data in visualizations

But what chart do you use for what?

83%* of Finance professionals 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄
- I've

Working on the last details of my presentation

Tomorrow, I'll have the chance to present

Why and How Should CFOs Cascade Storytelling Mindset to