Course curriculum

    1. The Four Cs of Financial Folly: How to Stop Leaking Profit from Your Veterinary Practice

    2. The Four Cs of Financial Folly Workbook

    3. The Four Cs of Financial Folly – Quiz

About this course

  • $45.00
  • 3 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Is Your Practice Leaking Profit?

As a practice owner, you have three core jobs: dream the dream, build the team, and don’t run out of money. We spend a lot of time talking about the first two. This session is about the third. In every practice Dr. Dave Nicol has consulted with, revenue has been quietly leaking. Not because the medicine was poor, and not because the team didn’t care, but because billing systems were unclear, inconsistent, or left to habit. On average, practices are undercharging by up to 15% simply through inaccurate billing. The impact is significant. Owners struggle to generate profit. Some are not even paying themselves properly. They eat feathers, not chicken. When profit disappears, so do options. Investment slows, pay raises stall, and the energy required to move the practice forward becomes harder to find. Ideas and dreams need funding, or they die.

What You'll Learn

In this 60-minute live webinar, Dr Dave Nicol shares his proven Four Cs framework to identify and recover missed revenue - helping practices reclaim 5 to 50% without new patients or extra marketing. You'll learn how to:

  • Identify the four predictable causes of revenue leakage

  • Run a simple billing audit that reveals where profit is being lost

  • Implement structured onboarding and training that improves billing accuracy

  • Introduce templates and systems that increase consistency

  • Protect margin without adding stress or micromanagement

  • Materially improve profit without doing any extra clinical work

What You'll Get

Alongside the live session, you will receive The Four Cs of Financial Folly Workbook – a practical implementation guide designed to help you apply the framework inside your own practice. Using the workbook, you will:

  • Spot the hidden patterns reducing your profitability

  • Run a structured mini audit to measure billing variance

  • Identify your biggest financial risk areas

  • Strengthen training, templates, and billing safeguards

  • Build a clear Financial Integrity Plan with defined next steps

Meet your instructor

Founder & CEO Dr Dave Nicol

Dr. Dave Nicol is a veterinary leadership expert with over 20 years of experience running successful, values-led veterinary practices. He is the owner of Roundwood Vets and the founder and CEO of the Veterinary Leadership Academy, all built with culture, clarity, and sustainability at their core. Dave has coached hundreds of veterinary leaders around the world, written three books including So You’re A Vet… Now What?, and hosts two of the profession’s longest-running podcasts. He was voted VMX Practice Management Speaker of the Year in both 2019 and 2024.

Stop Leaking Profit from Your Veterinary Practice

In this 60-minute live webinar, Dr Dave Nicol shares his proven Four Cs framework - developed from years of real-world invoice audits - to help you recover lost revenue, protect margin, and turn the work you are already doing into sustainable profit, with a practical implementation workbook included.

What leaders say about learning with Dr. Dave

“Engaging and educational. I left feeling empowered to do better.”

“Dr. Nicol is an excellent speaker. He provides very useful information that can be implemented. His presentations are just as fun as they are informative.”

“Absolutely fantastic speaker. Engaging and fun. Have loved all of his lectures!”