CFO Forcing Questions — Business

CFO Forcing Questions is a skill that stress-tests any plan involving money by asking six numerate questions covering burn, unit economics, dilution, capital allocation, revenue quality, and bear-case survival. It produces a structured CFO review report with a verdict (GREEN/YELLOW/RED) and conditions.

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📂 View skill on GitHub ↗ 🚀 How to use

✨ What it does

Checks burn multiple and runway under base/bull/bear scenarios
Analyzes LTV/CAC and payback period per channel
Calculates dilution path for current and future rounds
Evaluates alternative capital allocation with opportunity cost
Assesses gross margin trend and revenue quality
Tests bear-case survival (50% revenue) over 18 months

🎯 When to use it

Before approving any spend greater than 1% of revenue
Before opening a new hiring requisition
Before any fundraise conversation
Before changing pricing or unit economics
Before signing a multi-year contract

🚀 How to use

Trigger: /cs:cfo-review

Trigger with the slash command /cs:cfo-review <plan> where <plan> is a description of the plan or decision. The skill expects you to run the provided Python scripts to compute the numbers, then answer the six questions and produce the output report.

Example prompts:

/cs:cfo-review "Hiring 5 new sales reps"
/cs:cfo-review "Raising a Series A round"

📄 Output: A CFO review markdown report with numbers, verdict, conditions, and recommendation.

📦 Add this skill to Claude Code

# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills

# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/c-level-agents/skills/cfo-review .claude/skills/cfo-review

Skill source: c-level-agents/skills/cfo-review/SKILL.md

⚠️ Good to know

Requires access to the Python scripts and financial data; assumes the user can provide or compute the necessary metrics.

❓ FAQ

What does a burn multiple above 2x indicate?

A burn multiple above 2x is considered a problem according to the skill.

What is the verdict if the bear case runway is less than 12 months?

If the bear case is less than 12 months, you are already in fundraising mode, and the review would likely result in a YELLOW or RED verdict depending on other factors.

What are the three possible verdicts?

The verdicts are GREEN (fund it), YELLOW (fund with cut triggers), and RED (kill or revise).

🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.