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Business Portfolios: Pick the Optimal Products and Projects

Master portfolio strategies to improve company profitability, manage risk, and ensure sustainable growth. Learn the methods for selecting product and project mixes to achieve your strategy.

Created byRob Stephens
4.9
(51 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated Dec 2, 2025
Business Portfolios: Pick the Optimal Products and Projects

What You'll Learn

check_circleRecall ways to improve portfolio profitability and other desired criteria
check_circleIdentify key aspects of portfolio theory
check_circleRecall portfolio analysis methods
check_circleRecognize matrices used to assess portfolio components

About This Course

Optimize your company’s portfolio of products and services for maximum profitability, risk management, and long-term sustainability.  This course equips you with the knowledge and tools to move beyond individual project assessments and manage your company as a dynamic portfolio of opportunities.

Effective business portfolio management is crucial for sustainable growth and profitability. Learn to navigate the complexities of resource allocation, risk mitigation, and strategic alignment, transforming disparate investments into a cohesive, high-performing whole.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the various dimensions and trade-offs used to evaluate business portfolios, including profitability, risk, and strategic fit.
  • Apply classic portfolio analysis matrices, such as the BCG, McKinsey, and CFO matrices, to assess product and project viability.
  • Grasp the core concepts of Modern Portfolio Theory, the efficient frontier, and diversification as they apply to business investments.
  • Master the key steps of the business portfolio management process, from setting strategy to continuous monitoring and adjustment.
  • Explore a range of portfolio analysis methods, including standalone analysis, comparison methods, probabilistic simulation, and optimization techniques.
  • Identify and avoid common pitfalls that lead to suboptimal portfolios, such as overemphasizing regret avoidance and making decisions in isolation.

Transform your approach to business strategy and resource allocation. Learn how to build an optimal portfolio that maximizes return on investment, improves risk management, enhances efficiency, and reduces capital costs across your organization.

Your Instructor

Rob Stephens
Rob Stephens

Founder of CFO Perspective

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Rob Stephens is the Founder of CFO Perspective, which provides continuing education courses for CPAs and financial management courses for business advisors and staff. He has been quoted in Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many other news sources. He is also the author of Key Performance Indicators and KPI Dashboards. Rob has a 30-year career that includes serving as a CFO, Director of Operations, and SVP of Finance. Rob is an adjunct instructor for the MBA program at Gonzaga University. Rob holds a Masters of Science in Personal Financial Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Therapy from Kansas State University. He received a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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