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The VCII Toolkit
Working calculators, benchmark data and the full free library used by operating partners, deal teams and portfolio company executives. Nothing here is a teaser. Every tool runs before you give us anything.
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What is in the toolkit
Each of these runs free and unlocked. Use them on your own numbers.
Calculator
LBO Returns and Attribution
Entry price, debt and exit multiple in. MOIC, IRR and a three way split between earnings growth, multiple movement and deleveraging out.
Calculator
Covenant Headroom Checker
The revenue decline that breaches your leverage covenant, not the EBITDA decline. Most operators find the real number is far smaller than assumed.
Diagnostic
Certification Path Finder
Eight questions on your role, your gaps and where you are heading. Ends on the VCII programme that fits, and the one that does not.
Benchmark
Finance Salary Estimator
Compensation ranges across finance and value creation roles, by seniority and market.
Assessment
CFA Readiness Check
Where you stand against Level I and Level II, and what to close before you sit it.
How this works
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When the free tools stop being enough
The calculators give you the arithmetic. The certifications give you the judgement that decides which number matters, what a buyer will accept, and what to do when the answer is uncomfortable. Start wherever you are.