The goal of identifying waste is to ultimately remove it through continuous improvement practices. Being able to identify waste in accounting processes allows accounting to distinguish between the activities which create value and those that do not. Waste in accounting can manifest itself in an entire process step or specific activities or tasks which must […]
2021 Lean Accounting Community Chat Frequency – monthly, the 3rd Wednesday of every monthTime – 11:00 am US Eastern timeRecordings – chats will be recorded and available for a limited amount of timeRegistration: We’ve simplified the registration process. You only have to register once (using the following link) and you will receive one Zoom invitation, which […]
The Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP) is hosting this virtual workshop, which will be facilitated by Nick Katko. To achieve success, a lean organization must develop an effective and efficient management accounting function that complements its financial accounting system to provide a knowledge base for effectively making decisions about the future (this is critical because […]
Using PDCA in lean accounting is an essential practice which allows accounting to create a systematic approach to planning and executing its daily work and manage and sustain results from improvement activities. Practicing PDCA allows accounting to slow down a bit from always “doing” firefighting to approaching daily work and the problems that occur in […]
2021 Lean Accounting Community Chat Frequency – monthly, the 3rd Wednesday of every monthTime – 11:00 am US Eastern timeRecordings – chats will be recorded and available for a limited amount of timeRegistration: We’ve simplified the registration process. You only have to register once (using the following link) and you will receive one Zoom invitation, which […]
Accounting is naturally good at working with and using numbers. The skills of analyzing numbers, digging deeper behind the numbers to understand trends, interpreting what numbers mean and drawing conclusions based on numbers are all deeply ingrained in accountants. The “lean accounting” challenge is learning the lean thinking behind measurement: how measures are used in […]
Self-paced learning option Don’t worry if you can’t attend the sessions live. All sessions will be recorded. You can complete the workshop exercises at your own pace while listening to the recordings. Standard costing systems were designed for mass production manufacturing. In a lean company, using the information from standard costing systems to leads to […]
2021 Lean Accounting Community Chat Frequency – monthly, the 3rd Wednesday of every monthTime – 11:00 am US Eastern timeRecordings – chats will be recorded and available for a limited amount of timeRegistration: We’ve simplified the registration process. You only have to register once (using the following link) and you will receive one Zoom invitation, which […]
In the book Lean Product and Process Development, author Alan Ward states, “We don’t make money until customers buy what comes out of our plants. Development exists to create operational value streams . . . A good development value stream consistently produces profitable operational value streams.” Accounting may not be first on your mind when […]
2021 Lean Accounting Community Chat Frequency – monthly, the 3rd Wednesday of every monthTime – 11:00 am US Eastern timeRecordings – chats will be recorded and available for a limited amount of timeRegistration: We’ve simplified the registration process. You only have to register once (using the following link) and you will receive one Zoom invitation, which […]
