A Practical Guide To Lean Accounting And Productivity Measurement (Operational Excellence Series Book 8)

How to Develop, Implement, and Sustain a Lean Accounting System to Support and Encourage Lean Manufacturing, Improve the Value Received by the Customer, and Measure and Control Accurately Lean Improvements within Your Company.

Learn how to improve the quality, content, relevance, and timing of cost information for better planning, control, more accurate process costing and reporting, and improved effectiveness and efficiency of decision making.

Written by a successful business improvement practitioner this no fluff e–book includes:

Learn the Basics of Lean Manufacturing

Lean manufacturing systems allow managers to eliminate waste, reduce costs, and become more efficient. Firms that implemented lean manufacturing are pursuing a cost reduction strategy by redefining the activities performed within an organization. Cost reduction is directly related to cost leadership. Learn more about the five principles of lean thinking.

Lean Accounting System

Learn how to make changes in both product-costing and operational control approaches when moving from the traditional accounting to a value-stream-based lean manufacturing system. Learn how to develop and implement value stream costing and reporting, Box Scorecard performance measurement with real examples and calculations.

Total Productivity Measurement

Learn the methodology, how to develop and apply the two approaches of total productivity measurement – profile measurement and profit-linked productivity measurement (two real examples included).

Learn How to Measure Changes in Activity and Process Efficiency

An activity-based responsibility accounting system focuses on improving the efficiency of processes and activities. Examine the process of measuring the value of changes in productive efficiency by analyzing changes in input and output relationships over time with two examples.

Performance Measures

Learn the basics of a lean performance measurement system, the four basic measures of Lean, and the concept of Target Costing and Kaizen Costing.

Learn how to create, develop, implement, maintain and sustain an effective Lean Accounting and Productivity Measurement system in order to improve your product/service costing accuracy, support decisions about pricing, improve the efficiency of processes and activities, and evaluate process improvement initiatives. Scroll up and grab your copy now.