Your Cloud CFO

A cloud commitment can reach 100% utilization and still be part of a weak commitment strategy. That sounds counterintuitive. If every committed dollar is being used, what is the problem? The problem is that utilization answers only one question: did we use what we bought? It does not tell us whether we bought enough, whether […]

A budget can be accurate and still arrive too late A month-end budget report may be financially accurate. It may show the approved budget, the final actual spend, the variance, and the team responsible for it. But by the time that report is reviewed, many of the useful options have already narrowed. The usage has […]

TL;DR A complete Cloud Financial Management scope is not defined by how many providers appear in a dashboard. It is defined by the business decision the data must support. Start with the decision. Identify the material technology costs behind it. Then determine whether each source is timely, attributable, and detailed enough to support the required […]

Allocation tells you where technology cost belongs. Unit Economics tells you whether that cost is producing value efficiently. TL;DR Cost allocation is essential, but it answers only the first business question: where did the money go? Unit Economics goes further by connecting attributable technology cost with a meaningful unit of output, such as a transaction, […]