Lean Accounting Podcast with Jamie Flinchbaugh
Jamie Flinchbaugh invited me to his People Solve Problems podcast recently. In this podcast we talk about how lean accounting ...
The Benefits of a Pull System: A Chat with Phil Ledbetter
I sat down with my friend Phil Ledbetter, who worked at the Toyota plant in Kentucky for 16 years and ...
Lean Accounting Lesson – Lean Cost Management
Want to learn how lean & lean accounting work together to reduce costs over time? Here are five videos, each ...
The Real Relationship between Costs & Time
One of the primary weaknesses of a product costing system is the fact that the longer it takes to make ...
Conversations, not Conclusions
One of the primary differences between traditional management accounting and lean management accounting is lean management accounting focuses on creating conversations, ...
How Lean Thinking Improves Financial Results While Avoiding Traditional Cost Cutting
This blog is an article Mike De Luca wrote for the LEI Lean Accounting Newsletter. In July, Nick Katko and ...
Improving Accounting: Error Proofing
Chapter 7 – Improving Quality in Accounting: Error Proofing The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new ...
Practicing PDCA in Lean Accounting
Chapter 6 – Practicing PDCA The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new book, Practicing Lean Accounting ...
Using Lean Measures in Lean Accounting
Chapter 5 - Using Lean Measures The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new book, Practicing Lean ...
Identifying Waste in Lean Accounting
The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new book, Practicing Lean Accounting by Nick Katko and Mike ...
Understanding Customer Value in Lean Accounting
Chapter 3 - Understanding Customer Value The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new book, Practicing Lean ...
Lean Thinking for Lean Accounting
Chapter 2 - Lean Thinking for Accounting The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new book, Practicing ...
Practicing Lean Accounting
Chapter 1 - Practicing Lean Accounting The Practicing Lean Accounting Blog Series are excerpts from a new book, Practicing Lean Accounting by ...
Understanding Customer Value: How Accounting Applies this Foundational Lean Concept to its Work
Excerpted and adapted from the upcoming book Practicing Lean Accounting by Nick Katko and Mike De Luca, to be published ...
Value stream management in emergency management
NICK KATKO, RICCARDO PAVANATO, GIANANDREA CAPO This free article appeared in the Harvard Business Review – Italy as part of ...
Myth-Busting: Time Drives Costs
A few years ago I was working with a software company its lean transformation. During a training session someone made ...
The Lowdown on Lean Accounting Interview
Here is a 35 minute interview I did for the Kaplan's Financial Management Network, which answers the basic questions about ...
An Accountant’s Guide to Understanding Lean Accounting
I think one of the difficulties accountants face in understanding Lean Accounting is because we are trained to be “doers” ...
Lean Accounting and Inventory Reduction
One of the most critical responsibilities accounting must assume, in a lean manufacturing company using a standard costing system, is ...
Lean Accounting: Aligning Financial Management Practices
Lean companies organize their entire operations around value streams. The simplest definition of a value stream is all of the ...
Lean Accounting: Alignment of Financial Statements
External financial statements must comply with financial accounting regulations, which often times results in a disconnect between operational activities and ...
Lean Accounting: Aligning Performance Measurements
Lean companies recognize that optimization of the entire value stream flow is the primary goal of lean operating practices, tools ...
How Lean Accounting aligns Lean with the accounting function
Accounting professionals are trained to be “doers” of accounting. Accounting training and education is about how to perform accounting tasks, ...
Lean Accounting: Aligning the Lean Organization
Lean is first and foremost a business strategy based on 5 principles: creating customer value; organizing the business around its ...
Material & Machine Cost Reduction (Part 3 of 3)
In the first cost reduction blog I explained cost reduction is lean organizations is different than traditional cost reduction practices ...
Labor Cost Reduction (Part 2 of 3)
In the previous blog I explained cost reduction in lean organizations is different than traditional cost reduction practices because of ...
Cost Reduction in Lean Organizations Part 1 of 3
Does lean reduce costs? – Yes! Tiiachi Ohno stated this very clearly: “costs do not exist to be calculated, they ...
The Fundamentals of Value Stream Costing – Part 3 of 3
Shared Value Stream Costs Shared value stream costs exist because resources or consumption of goods & services may be shared ...
The Fundamentals of Value Stream Costing – Part 2 of 3
Value Stream Costing Categories In value stream costing, we like to categorize value stream costs either as direct costs; shared ...
The Fundamentals of Value Stream Costing – Part 1 of 3
Lean is a multi-faceted business strategy, with a primary focus on employees and learning. Through the use of various lean ...
Lean Financial Management: Production Cost Analysis
The purpose of a value stream income statement is to analyze current value stream costs compared to current value stream ...
Lean Financial Management: Material Cost Analysis
In the world of Lean Accounting, you will hear that a value stream income statement needs to show “actual material ...
Lean Decision Making Framework Guidelines
Lean Decision Making Framework: General Guidelines In this blog, I’d like to explain 3 general guidelines accounting should follow for ...
Lean Accounting & Standard Costing Variances
A standard costing system generates rate & volume variances by design. Standards are entered into the system, actual is reported ...
Lean Accounting and Standard Costing: An Introduction
If you are in the accounting department in a lean manufacturing company, and your company uses a standard costing system, ...
