Oct 2, 2025Struggling to brief the board on cloud costs without exposing vendor details? In this lesson, you’ll learn executive‑safe wording for showback vs. chargeback and how to present COGS per active customer to drive gross margin clarity and action. Expect a one‑slide CFO narrative, appendix templates, real‑world examples, and quick exercises—plus checklists and red‑flag rephrasing to keep disclosures clean. You’ll leave ready to tell a crisp, defensible story that links FinOps levers to unit economics and EBITDA.

Oct 2, 2025Struggling to explain COGS per active customer to a CFO without exposing vendor terms? In this executive brief, you’ll learn to define the metric cleanly, allocate shared costs with defensible drivers, link unit costs to gross margin and ARPU, and outline a 90‑day optimization plan with safe disclosures. Expect crisp explanations, CFO-ready sentence templates, real-world examples, and quick exercises to lock in the language and the math—built for a 10–15 minute, mobile-first review. You’ll finish ready to brief the board with confidence and quantify impact in basis points, not buzzwords.