Learn to evaluate, fund, and monitor growth strategies with the financial discipline needed to avoid costly expansion mistakes.

Business growth can increase profitability, strengthen cash flow, broaden diversification, and improve your ability to attract and retain talent. Yet rapid expansion can also erode margins, strain working capital, increase operational complexity, reduce customer satisfaction, and create liquidity crises. This course provides a practical framework for evaluating, funding, and monitoring growth initiatives so that companies can pursue sustainable value rather than simply larger sales volumes.

What You'll Learn ...

• Identify the benefits and risks of expansion
• Assess organizational readiness for growth
  
• Anticipate the people and infrastructure needed to scale
  
• Differentiate fixed, variable, and step-fixed costs and recognize how capacity constraints can change growth economics
  
• Build net contribution analyses to estimate the periodic profit impact of new products, locations, customers, or markets
  
• Use cost-volume-profit and break-even analysis to determine the sales volume required to achieve a target profit or acceptable return
  
• Analyze growth-related cash flow timing and understand how profit can increase while cash availability declines
  
• Manage the cash conversion cycle by evaluating inventory, receivables, payables, required working capital, and permanent working capital
• Evaluate growth investments using NPV, IRR, payback period, discounted payback period, ROI, and ROE
  
• Understand the methods to build a profitable portfolio
  
• Compare funding options for growth
  
  

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