Read your SaaS numbers like a CFO.
A free crash course on the metrics, P&L structure, and decisions that actually move a SaaS business β without spreadsheets, jargon, or guesswork.
When your P&L isn't built for SaaS, the numbers lie.
Most software P&Ls are inherited from generic accounting templates. The result quietly distorts every decision you make.
Wrong metrics
You report numbers that don't reflect how SaaS revenue and cost actually behave.
Broken gross margin
COGS and OpEx blur together, so the single most important margin comes out wrong.
Lost investor trust
Numbers that don't tie out erode credibility with investors and your board fast.
Bad decisions
You steer pricing, hiring, and spend on data you can't actually defend.
By the end, you'll structure financials a CFO would trust.
Seven short lessons. One clear system.
Each lesson is a focused, no-filler walkthrough you can finish on a coffee break.
The Biggest Mistake
The P&L error that quietly distorts almost every SaaS metric β and the fix.
The Five-Pillar Metrics Framework
The operating system Ben uses to organize every SaaS metric that matters.
The SaaS P&L
Build revenue, COGS, and department structure the right way from the start.
SaaS COGS Done Right
What belongs in cost of revenue β and what's secretly wrecking your margin.
The Power 3 SaaS Metrics
The three signals that reveal whether you'll scale or stall β beyond ARR.
How SaaS CFOs Think
The sequential mental model behind sharper, faster financial decisions.
AI Economics: Is AI eating your gross margin?
How inference costs compress SaaS margins, why your chart of accounts needs to change, and the new AI metrics boards are starting to ask for.
since 2016
Taught by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO.
Ben has spent a decade in the CFO seat at founder-owned and PE-backed software companies β and over ten years teaching SaaS finance to operators who'd rather understand their numbers than fear them.
- 25+ years in finance and accounting, with an MBA and a CPA.
- 10+ years as an in-house SaaS CFO across multiple software companies.
- Writing SaaS finance for 10+ years at TheSaaSCFO.com.
- Founder of The SaaS Academy and SoftwareMetrics.ai.
- Trusted by 10,000+ SaaS operators and finance leaders.
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