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it finance

it finance

Master the essentials through 21 focused micro-lessons you can complete at your own pace.

21Modules
84Minutes
🎓Self-Paced
✅Free Access
Outcomes

What You’ll Learn

✓You will be able to identify the primary goals of IT financial management.
✓You will be able to distinguish between asset investments and operational costs.
✓You will be able to calculate TCO including hidden maintenance and support costs.
✓You will be able to justify every expense in a new IT budget cycle.
✓You will be able to update financial projections based on real-time usage.
✓You will be able to select the most cost-effective cloud pricing tier.
✓You will be able to apply FinOps practices to optimize cloud spending.
✓You will be able to reduce waste in software subscription portfolios.
✓You will be able to calculate the depreciation of physical IT assets.
✓You will be able to determine the fully burdened cost of IT labor.
✓You will be able to quantify the financial benefit of an IT investment.
✓You will be able to assess if a project is financially viable today.
21 Modules

Course Modules

1
3 min

Foundations of IT Financial Management

An introduction to the intersection of technology management and corporate finance.

🏆 You will be able to identify the primary goals of IT financial management.

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2
4 min

Capital Expenditure versus Operational Expenditure

Comparing CapEx and OpEx models for technology investments.

🏆 You will be able to distinguish between asset investments and operational costs.

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3
5 min

Calculating Total Cost of Ownership

Analyzing the full cost of a technology asset over its entire lifecycle.

🏆 You will be able to calculate TCO including hidden maintenance and support costs.

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4
4 min

Zero-Based Budgeting for IT Projects

Learning to build a budget from scratch rather than adjusting previous years.

🏆 You will be able to justify every expense in a new IT budget cycle.

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5
3 min

Implementing Rolling Forecasts in Tech

Moving from static annual budgets to continuous financial predictions.

🏆 You will be able to update financial projections based on real-time usage.

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6
4 min

Cloud Consumption and Pricing Models

Understanding pay-as-you-go, reserved instances, and spot pricing.

🏆 You will be able to select the most cost-effective cloud pricing tier.

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7
5 min

Core Principles of the FinOps Framework

Integrating financial accountability into the variable spend cloud model.

🏆 You will be able to apply FinOps practices to optimize cloud spending.

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8
3 min

Managing SaaS Subscription Costs

Evaluating seat-based versus usage-based software licensing models.

🏆 You will be able to reduce waste in software subscription portfolios.

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9
4 min

Hardware Depreciation and Lifecycle Finance

Understanding how hardware value decreases over time and impacts taxes.

🏆 You will be able to calculate the depreciation of physical IT assets.

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10
3 min

IT Labor and Resource Costing

Calculating the true cost of internal technical staff and contractors.

🏆 You will be able to determine the fully burdened cost of IT labor.

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11
4 min

Measuring Return on Investment (ROI)

Using the ROI formula to justify technology upgrades.

🏆 You will be able to quantify the financial benefit of an IT investment.

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12
5 min

Calculating Net Present Value (NPV)

Determining the current value of future cash flows from IT projects.

🏆 You will be able to assess if a project is financially viable today.

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13
4 min

Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Basics

Evaluating the efficiency of different IT investments using IRR.

🏆 You will be able to compare multiple projects to find the highest return.

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14
5 min

Financial Modeling for Cloud Migration

Predicting the cost shift when moving from on-premise to cloud.

🏆 You will be able to build a migration cost-benefit analysis.

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15
4 min

Negotiating IT Vendor Contracts

Strategies for reducing costs during software and hardware procurement.

🏆 You will be able to identify leverage points for vendor price negotiations.

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16
4 min

Implementing IT Chargeback Models

Billing IT services directly to the internal departments that use them.

🏆 You will be able to allocate IT costs to specific business units.

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17
3 min

Executing IT Showback Strategies

Providing visibility into IT costs without actual internal billing.

🏆 You will be able to create transparency reports for resource consumption.

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18
4 min

IT Asset Management Financial Integration

Connecting the IT asset inventory with the financial ledger.

🏆 You will be able to reconcile physical assets with financial records.

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19
5 min

Cloud Cost Optimization Techniques

Applying right-sizing and scheduling to eliminate cloud waste.

🏆 You will be able to lower monthly cloud bills through technical optimization.

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20
3 min

IT Financial KPIs and Metrics

Defining and tracking key performance indicators for IT spending.

🏆 You will be able to report on IT financial health to stakeholders.

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21
5 min

Strategic IT Portfolio Management

Aligning the overall IT investment portfolio with business goals.

🏆 You will be able to balance risk and reward across a tech portfolio.

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Master it finance at your own pace. Begin with Module 1 and progress through all 21 modules.

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