BMA hosts a monthly Lean Accounting Community Chat, which is a place for anyone interested in lean accounting to gather to discuss what’s on their mind, ask questions, learn, share […]

I will be facilitating a one-day Practicing Lean Accounting Workshop for the 2022 AME International Conference in Dallas, TX. In this workshop through training, case study exercises, and discussion you will learn: How to build and use a lean management accounting system to make relevant information available to decision makers on a timely basisWhy lean […]

At the 2022 Iowa Lean Consortium Annual Conference, I will be facilitating two pre-conference workshops on October 24: Practicing Lean Accounting 9:00am – 12:00pmIntroduction to Lean Management Accounting 1:00pm – 4:00pm On October 25 I will also be presenting a breakout session on lean accounting. To learn more and register: https://whova.com/web/4sn8N3Zzx-wnw21s7uX2qdg9yhLD0Nu8a2ayI3EBrs0%3D/

The origins of lean are in manufacturing, but the principles, practices and tools are just as applicable for the accounting function. The core idea of lean for accounting is to serve customers better by eliminating waste.  In this webinar you will learn how to deploy and use basic lean practices in the accounting department to […]

BMA hosts a monthly Lean Accounting Community Chat, which is a place for anyone interested in lean accounting to gather to discuss what’s on their mind, ask questions, learn, share […]

In lean companies, it’s essential that the CFO become a Lean CFO early in the lean management accounting transformation process because you must be the leader. In smaller companies you may be actively involved in transformation activities. In larger companies, you probably will delegate the detail work to others in accounting, but ultimately you are leading them. In […]

BMA hosts a monthly Lean Accounting Community Chat, which is a place for anyone interested in lean accounting to gather to discuss what’s on their mind, ask questions, learn, share […]

Lean is a long-term business strategy, primarily focusing on employees and learning. Through various continuous improvement practices, employees learn to master their work, solve the right problems and help an organization learn how to do things tomorrow it cannot do today.The operational impact of continuous improvement is well known. Eliminating waste creates capacity, which can […]

Standard costing systems were designed for mass production manufacturing. In a lean company, using the information from standard costing systems to leads to non-lean behavior, poor decisions and:  If you are in the accounting department in a lean company, and your company uses a standard costing system, it is inevitable that you will be faced […]

Standard costing systems were designed for mass production manufacturing. In a lean company, using the information from standard costing systems to leads to non-lean behavior, poor decisions and:  If you are in the accounting department in a lean company, and your company uses a standard costing system, it is inevitable that you will be faced […]