Capex Blog
Capital expenditure,explained plainly.
Practical articles on how Capex works in real organisations, from investment planning and budgeting to approvals, prioritisation and follow up.
Written for CFOs, FP&A teams, finance leaders, Capex managers, controllers, operations leaders and investment owners who want a clearer way to understand and improve how capital decisions are made.
Latest articles
Capex maturity
How Mature Is Your Capex Process? Find Out in 3 Minutes
Signs your Capex process has not kept pace with the business, and a three-minute assessment to see where you stand.
Buyer's guide
Best capital planning software: a buyer's guide for finance leaders
How to tell capex, capital planning and project software apart, and ten criteria to check before you compare vendors.
CEO perspective
Capital Allocation is Your Strategy
Why the companies that outperform on capex will not be those that invest most, but those that allocate best and reallocate fastest.
CEO perspective
The Tail Wags the Dog: Your Capex Process Is Quietly Writing Your Strategy
Every approved project can have a positive NPV while the portfolio still takes the company somewhere leadership never chose.
Capex fundamentals
Capex vs Opex: the line that decides who gets to say yes
Capital expenditure and operating expenditure explained in plain language, with examples, a comparison table and the practical effect on financial governance.
Capex fundamentals
Capex, explained: what capital expenditure really means in practice
A plain-language introduction to capital expenditure: the categories, the vocabulary, and how capex actually moves through an industrial organisation.
Capex process
Inside the capex process: six decisions between a strategy and a built asset
How strategy, planning, budgeting, approval, execution and review connect, and why weak handovers undermine capital decisions.
Capex governance
Why capex approvals take months and what actually shortens them
A practical look at the capex approval process, where delays arise and how each stage should work.
Capex forecasting
Why capex forecasts are inaccurate, and why the miss goes unmeasured
Why replacing each quarterly forecast makes accuracy difficult to measure, and what companies lose when the history disappears.
Our story
The Weissr story: from capex advisory work to a Capex Platform
Where Weissr comes from: the founders, the methodology behind the book and how it became a platform for the whole Capex cycle.
Coming next
On the writing list
- What is capital budgeting?
- What is capital allocation?
- Capex forecasting explained
- Capex management best practices
- Building a capex business case
- How to prioritise a capital portfolio
Expert perspectives
Capex Experts
Thought leadership on capital allocation from Fredrik Weissenrieder and Daniel Lindén.
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Capex Strategy
Model long-term investment alternatives across the asset base.
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Capital Budgeting
Turn prioritised demand into an approved capital budget.
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Capex Management
Run requests, approvals, execution and close-out in one place.
Challenge
Capital allocation
Compare complete portfolios instead of single business cases.
Guides
Guides & Reports
Benchmarks and practical guides for capital-intensive groups.
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