Demo: explaining a year of platform spend to the CFO
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present actual spend against the business case; prepares STF-017-LAB1.
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Step by step
- Gather the year's actual costs by category and compare with the plan.
- Explain variances plainly: what was higher, why, and what changed.
- Show benefits realized versus promised, with data sources.
- Planned mistake: hiding an overspend in a total. Fix: show it separately with cause and corrective action.
- Let finance reproduce the numbers from your sheet.
- Agree the next-year budget and reporting.
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