Welcome to Rube HQ!
This is finance training, but for humans who’ve ever sworn at a spreadsheet.
Let’s not pretend.
You didn’t get into mining to become a part-time accountant.
But here you are — knee-deep in budgets, baffled by reports, and just one dodgy forecast away from being volunteered as tribute for the next finance meeting.
That’s where we come in.
At Kubik Rube , we teach finance to the rest of us — the operational legends, the site supervisors, the “I-just-want-to-run-my-cost-centre-without-the-CFO-side-eye” crew.
💥We don’t do jargon.
💥We don’t do boring.
💥And we definitely don’t do calculators unless we’re also smashing biscuits.
What we do is:
👉Teach finance concepts in plain English... and in Rube Speak (with a bit of bite)
👉Show you how to make the numbers work for you
👉Make you laugh, then make you dangerous (in a budget meeting, anyway)
Starting with the crowd favourite
Mining Finance Made Simple:
Intro & Basic Concepts
The course you wish they ran before handing you a cost centre
This one’s for every Rube who’s ever fake-nodded through a cost review while internally spiralling.
In this course, we:
👉Break down the big scary terms
👉Explain how the money actually works on a mine site
👉Teach you how to read, question, and confidently use financial reports without feeling like you’ve stumbled into a foreign film with no subtitles
💡 Whether you’re new to finance, newly promoted, or newly sick of the month-end circus - THIS is your starting point.
Or skip ahead and dive straight into the pain
Pick your poison and let’s make those financials your b*tch (respectfully).
Finance for Rubes. Just how we like it.
Depreciation Demystified
Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s free
Accrual Intentions
For Rubes who never see the invoice when the cost shows up
Profit Says Yes,
Cash Says No
(Coming soon)
For anyone who’s rich on paper and poor in real life.
Get across the sneakiest long-term cost on site
Depreciation Demystified:
MINING EDITION
The course you wish they ran before dumping capex on your cost centre
This one’s for every Rube who’s ever looked at their budget and thought,“Why the hell am I still paying for something we parked last quarter?”
In this course, we:
👉 Strip the fluff off depreciation and explain what it actually means
👉 Show how assets impact your cost centre long after the invoice is paid
👉 Help you spot the difference between “useful life” and “why-is-this-still-on-my-books”
👉 Teach you how to talk capital costs like you own the damn spreadsheet
💡 Whether you’re wrangling new gear, inheriting someone else’s capex chaos, or just sick of depreciation tanking your forecast - THIS is your wake-up call.
The course for Rubes who’ve been caught with their accruals down
ACCRUAL INTENTIONS
The course you wish they ran before making you explain why the report looks dodgy
This one’s for every Rube who’s ever opened their cost report and screamed internally: “Why is this showing up now when the work happened weeks ago?”
In this course, we:
👉 Rip the mystery out of accruals and explain how timing actually works
👉 Show you why costs land late (and how to spot them early)
👉 Help you call out missing invoices before Finance does
👉 Teach you to manage month-end like a pro — no more cut-off chaos, no more budget surprises
💡 Whether you’re juggling late invoices, inheriting a mess of mis-timed costs, or just sick of your forecast getting roasted - THIS is how you stop getting stitched up at month-end
The course for Rubes who found out the hard way that profit doesn’t equal cash
Profit Says Yes, Cash Says No
Understanding Cashflow vs Profit (without crying in your bank app)
The course you wish they ran before asking you to explain why there’s profit on the report but no money in the bank
This one’s for every Rube who’s ever looked at their P&L and thought: “Profit looks great… so why does our bank account have tumbleweeds in it?”
In this course, we:
👉 Break down the difference between profit and cashflow (and why it matters)
👉 Show where cash hides in your operations — and why it never seems to match the report
👉 Help you track the flow of money through budgets, purchases, and payment delays
👉 Teach you to explain cash shortfalls without sweating through your hi-vis
💡Whether you’re running the site, reviewing the numbers, or just sick of being asked where the money went — THIS is the course that finally tells the truth.