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 Course Author - Strategic Financial Intelligence for Business Leaders

The CEO Financial Intelligence Program

Built for CEOs, CFOs and executives who want to lead with strategic financial insight and engineered performance. 

Through expert sessions, real-world cases, and a private executive community, you'll learn to connect the dots between vision and results, challenge financial assumptions, ask the right questions, and make confident decisions that drive enterprise value.

Founder

Financiario

Financiario delivers the financial foresight of a strategic CFO — automated into real-time dashboards — to unlock capital, drive growth, and lead with confidence.

Always know how today’s decisions impact cash flow, profitability, and long-term value — without the guesswork, spreadsheets, or delays.

Designed for mid-market companies, Financiario connects financial planning, forecasting, and reporting into one powerful, fully managed platform.

From multi-entity consolidations and scenario modeling to capital allocation and debt management, every dashboard and report is engineered to align financial performance with strategic objectives.

Experience real-time financial intelligence. Book a demo at Financiario.com.

Founder & CEO

OanaLabes.com

Hi, I'm Oana Labes.

As one of the top worldwide Linkedin content creators, my strategic finance content has been seen by over 140 million people over the past year.

My Linkedin following has grown to over 350,000 followers, and the business and finance Checklists and Cheat Sheets I created have been viewed and downloaded by millions of people worldwide.

My 'Cash Flow Masterclass' has transformed hundreds of careers and businesses and my Corporate Trainings have helped thousands of professionals around the world.

Join over 55,000+ people and subscribe to my free newsletter 'The Finance Gem 💎' to get strategic finance insights every Saturday and compound your impact & influence on in boardrooms and beyond.

Get in touch at www.OanaLabes.com

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Founder & Content Creator

Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)

Founded in 2016, CFI is the world-leading provider of practical learning and productivity tools for finance and banking professionals. Powered by expert instructors, hands-on lessons, and proprietary technology, CFI delivers the skills, certifications, CPE credits, and resources to help anyone—from beginner to seasoned pro—drive their finance career.

Guest Writer

Profitability Analytics Center of Excellence

PACE is an independent, non-profit, community of professionals dedicated to developing ways for companies to strategically manage and improve revenue, cost, and investments using causal analytic models to help make better, more informed decisions and drive greater value creation.

Advisory Board Member

I enable the financing that supports the growth and success of growing businesses operating in the Manufacturing, Wholesale and Logistics space.  I also lead RBC’s relationship with my clients at the enterprise level; I oversee the overall risk monitoring process for my portfolio and actively manage the portfolio credit risk within the bank’s risk appetite.

Senior Commercial Manager - Supply Chain Industries

Commercial Manager / Technology Banking KBI

Holidays Inc.

After working in the industry for 6 years I founded a travel concierge business at the age of 23, and bootstrapped it to 1.3MM EUR in revenues, 13 employees and 2 offices over the course of 4 years. We partnered with Thomas Cook in Germany to gain exclusive access to the full travel offering of more than 70 of the world’s largest 70 wholesale operators including Thomas Cook, Neckerman, TUI, ITS, DERtour, Schauinsland or ITS. 

Our strategy focused on product leadership, customer service, and innovation, which helped to differentiate us in the local market and afforded us record high retention rates and customer referrals.

I used to think finance wasn’t rocket science — until I saw how many CEOs and companies get crushed by it.

Great products with solid margins - consistently struggling to engineer growth with proactive cash flow planning and smart capital allocation.

That’s when I realized: it’s not just about numbers — it’s about knowing what they mean, how to plan around them, and how to make decisions that actually build value.

That’s what I teach. And that’s what my company Financiario delivers.

📌 I’m a CPA, MBA, and Founder of Financiario — the only financial intelligence platform built to think, report, and advise like a CFO in real time — whether you have a CFO or not.

📌 My background:

→ 15+ years of mid-market capital expertise
→ $300M+ secured and deployed across growth, M&A, and enterprise value acceleration
→ Scaled hundreds of companies 10–20x by aligning capital, cash flow, and strategic planning

📌 I’m also:

→ A Top 10 U.S. LinkedIn Finance Creator
→ A LinkedIn Learning Instructor
→ Read weekly by 45,000+ CEOs and CFOs via The Finance Gem
→ Followed by 500,000+ worldwide across platforms

📌 I’ve taught over 5,000 leaders through:

→ The CEO Financial Intelligence Program – master the 20% of finance that drives 80% of results
→ The Cash Flow Masterclass – used by thousands to turn liquidity into leverage
→ The Financial Analysis Masterclass – helping leaders turn numbers into strategy

📌 Brand partners & highlights:

→ Oracle, SAP, HubSpot, Mercury, 
→ AFP speaker (largest finance conference in the world): 3 years running

If you’re a scaling company, ambitious executive, finance pro, or growing brand — I can help.

→ Follow me here, on IG and YouTube (coming soon)
→ Scale with me: Financiario.com
→ Learn with me: oanalabes.com
→ Reach me: hello@oanalabes.com

Oana Labes, MBA, CPA

Most CEOs are building strategy on Adjusted EBITDA.

But Operating Cash Flow is the number that tells the truth.

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Let’s talk about the most abused metric in finance:
Adjusted EBITDA.

On paper and in quarterly calls it looks impressive.

↳ Big number
↳ Solid growth story
↳ Great for pitch decks

But dig deeper, and it’s often nothing more than a sanitized version of the truth.

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Here’s what happens when the heat of real business pressure kicks in:

↳ Adjusted EBITDA: a full pan of spinach — puffed up with “one-time” add-backs

↳ EBITDA: a few wilted leaves left — still disconnected from actual cash

↳ Net income: the bare truth — what’s left after everyone else takes their share

↳ Operating cash flow: the real litmus test — what the business actually generates to reinvest, repay, and survive

Most CEOs are obsessed with EBITDA.
But it’s operating cash flow that fuels today and builds tomorrow.

Smart CEOs understand this:

✓ Adjusted EBITDA is easy to manipulate — operating cash flow isn’t
✓ EBITDA ignores working capital swings — OCF exposes them
✓ Operating cash flow shows what’s sustainable — not presentable

Because at the end of the day, only one number fuels:

Payroll
Debt repayment
Growth reinvestment
Dividend distribution
Breathing room in downturns

That number is Operating Cash Flow.

If you’re not tracking it religiously, and planning it carefully - you're in for some seriosu financial trouble.

This isn’t about becoming a CFO.

It’s about being a CEO who actually understands how value is created — and destroyed.

So here’s the question:

Are you managing by numbers that survive heat?
Or by metrics that evaporate when reality sets in?

📌 Want to transform your leadership, company and career?

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♻️ Like, Comment, Repost if this was helpful. And follow Oana Labes, MBA, CPA for strategic insights on financial leadership.
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CEO @ Financiario | Real Time CFO Intelligence for Mid-Market Companies | Rolling Forecasts • Dynamic Dashboards • Board Decks | Founder & Coach @ The CEO Financial Intelligence Program | Top 10 LinkedIn USA Finance

Catalystic® Digiprenuer Enterprises Limited

Chief Managing Director

Catalystic® Gram Pathshala

An initiative to nurture the Indian Future (Kids, Teens & Youth) in the villages of our great Nation. So that later they can come forward and build India in the future!

Catalystic® Mart

The Catalystic® Thrift & Credit Co-Operative Society Limited

Co-operative moment is so powerful around the globe. it has changed the lives of lac of people all across globe. So, we have also decided to dive into it and benefit our thousands of members in Ludhiana Punjab. Thrift and credit co-operative societies has playing vital role for communities or individuals for saving money and access credit at much cheaper rates in comparison with money market norms. It has also played an vital role to fulfill basic banking requirements at village level. On the other hand it also helped micro-startups with cheaper credit facility to build stable businesses, I am also benefited and funded by Thrift & credit Co-operative society in my initial starting up days and build this much big empire in few years. There are many benefits also associated with it, so we want to strengthen our trainees and village startups to come forward and help enhancing their local economies with their hard-work and courage.

Rajiv Chand International

'Rajiv Chand International is passionately dedicated to mobilize, equip, & encourage young entrepreneurs, startups or businesses in the expert guidance of Rajiv Chand.

Chand says, “Young people have creative ideas, dreams, enthusiasm, and energy. Nevertheless, many give up, remain passive or do not know how to go about it.”

At Rajiv Chand International we are committed to craft and handholding of our entrepreneurs to achieve maximum out of them with available resources around them. Our company expanding its reach to aware maximum deserving aspiring talents of India by offering “Franchise” to aspiring entrepreneurs/business people.

So that we can impact those entrepreneurs who have fewer opportunities due to their Geographical Locations.'

Yeshua Associates

The "reality sector" has huge opportunity in India. We are helping you to understand the opportunity and returns from this sector!

Yeshua Advertizers

Your brand is meant for visibility. We are helping your startup or business to reach real India.

Yeshua Corporate Strategists

Corporations need dynamic strategies to survive in this Tech world... We at Yeshua Corporate Strategists help startups, SMEs as well as Corporations to design their sales, marketing, brand positioning according to Tech Era...

Yeshua Manufacturers & Traders

Incepted in the year 2012, we, Yeshua Manufacturers & Traders are leading Indian company in Paper Cup & Plates Making Machine Industry. Known for the purpose of manufacturers and traders of high-quality Paper Cup Machines, Bowl & Plate Making Machines, Paper Plate Raw Materials and Bowl & Plate Die Moulds. By utilizing modern machinery and quality assured material, we manufacture the presented range as per the industry laid values and regulations. Owing to their rich properties such as light weight, resistance to leakage, smooth texture, weatherproof and long lasting, these products are highly recognized and demanded amid customers. Our customers can get the offered products in numerous sizes and designs, as per their wants and requirements. Delivered by us at economical prices, these products are highly acknowledged in the market.

We owe contemporary infrastructure, which is deliberately categorized into several units for having all business processes in an organized manner. It includes departments such as research and development, designing, warehousing and packaging, sales and marketing, administrative and quality control. Our infrastructure covers up comprehensive landmass and possesses large installation capability. The machines installed by us in fabrication department are regularly greased and upgraded, in order to improve their level of performance.

CMD at Catalystic® Digiprenuer Enterprises Limited (CDEL); Founder & CEO of Rajiv Chand International (RCI) and founded many other companies in various sectors; currently living in New Delhi, Delhi, India.

As an Ex-assistant internal auditor of the World Bank, ADB, IMF, IFC, and UN agencies, I understand the genuine problems India is facing altogether related to:
(i) Mass Employment,
(ii) Skilled Workforce,
(iii) Startups/Businesses, and
(iv) Weak Economic Ecosystem.

These are indeed huge problems and impossible for Govt. to handle alone. This means every citizen especially 'Indian Youth' should contribute "something" out of their talent(s) to the Indian economy.

For that "something", I initiated a multidimensional project committed to:
(i) Aware our Indian Youth about the need and urgency of entrepreneurship;
(ii) Skills required for progressive growth;
(iii) Help & and handholding for students, professionals, startups, and business owners;
(iv) Evolve into a better ecosystem to strengthen the Indian economy.

My interests range from "education ~to ~ entrepreneurship ~to~ accelerated economy". I am also interested in innovation, technology, and martial arts (for fitness).

If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to say hello through any of the social platforms.

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