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Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterpise

Brian H. Maskell, Bruce Baggaley

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The Best Management Accounting Book in Years 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

"Practical Lean Accounting" is the best management accounting book I've read in 20 years - maybe more. Well written and illustrated with plenty of examples and diagrams, it adds new tools to management accounting and restores the relevance of some older ones. As such I recommend it to all management accountants and students - whether or not you are involved in lean accounting itself.

The aim of the book is to "produce a roadmap for finance managers in companies seeking to transition their organisations into lean enterprises". Lean accounting is a new approach to managing a business and, as management accountants, we have a duty to be there. As the authors say "it's never too early to start dismantling the company's transaction driven control systems. They represent huge amounts of waste and cost to the organisation !".

Specifically, lean management seeks to radically restructure the organisation into Value Streams (rather than functional departments), and this requires new management accounting tools including Value Stream performance measures, Box Scores, new methods of planning and budgeting, target costing and a whole host of other tools. The book explores all these tools in detail. The introduction of "lean" tools also allows significant reduction in transactions in the company's accounting processes, including the elimination of full-absorption costing.

Lean accounting is, therefore, designed to replace "traditional" accounting techniques which encourage inefficient practices such as building inventory, and often lead to poor management decisions (using Standard costs). Traditional measures are also too complicated for operational employees to understand easily and are often too late to be useful in shopfloor decision making. Lean accounting, by contrast, is very much focused on simple visual shopfloor measures for instant decision making, coupled with management accounting tools for longer term planning.

"Practical Lean Accounting" provides a good overview of the lean management process, and excellent linkage to management accounting activities. Highly recommended.

Editorial Review:

With a value stream approach at its core, Practical Lean Accounting demonstrates how to transform a traditional accounting system to support a company's lean initiative. The author defines the principles of lean accounting and demonstrates ways to identify and eliminate wasteful transactions. He covers cell performance measurement, use of the box score, operational and financial planning, cost targeting, lean accounting diagnostics, and value stream mapping. An included CD provides needed forms and charts. Designed as a hands-on manual for financial officers that will continue to serve as a resource following conversion, the book can also be used to win over a skeptical finance department.

The Administrative Professional: Technology & Procedures (with CD-ROM)

Patsy Fulton-Calkins

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The administrative professional role today is challenging due to the constant advances in technology, our global economy, and an increasingly diverse workplace. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL: TECHNOLOGY & PROCEDURES 13E is a complete learning package designed to prepare students for all levels of the office environment including customer satisfaction, technological changes, and time management. With this text, students will gain the knowledge and skills to become an asset to the administrative professional field.

Value Stream Management

Don Tapping, Tom Luyster, Tom Shuker

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Good primer 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I use this book in my lean manufacturing class. It has good practical examples and a useful method for doing lean using the value stream mapping approach. I highly receommend this book for the first timers. I think someone who has no experience could get started using this book.

Great tools for Leaning your facility 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 14 people found this review helpful.

This book gave me great insight to re-initialized our lean efforts. We have been so busy and got caught up in the value stream mapping craze and kaizen events, but little impact. This book did a superb job in laying out the eight steps, with all the forms, templates necessary to ensure sustainable results. Great work by the authors!

Editorial Review:

Value stream management simplifies planning for lean implementation. It links the metrics and reporting required by management with the tools needed on the manufacturing floor. In this volume, the authors stress the importance of reaching beyond single-point kaizens to ensure a sustainable lean implementation process. The central feature of this work is the value stream management storyboard, a tool representing an eight-step process for lean implementation. The storyboard brings together people, tools, metrics, and reporting into one visual document. The book is packaged with a CD containing a lean assessment tool and a storyboard template, as well as charts, forms, and worksheets.

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor (Shopfloor Series)

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lean manufacturing 4 out of 5 stars.
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The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

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Like all Shopfloor Series books, Identifying Waste on the Shopfloorpresents concepts and tools in simple and accessible language. The book includes many illustrations and examples to explain basic concepts and some of the challenges that are encountered when looking for and eliminating waste.

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is the ideal compliment to 5S, TPM, and other tools for building a lean manufacturing operation.

Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effective approach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor and all our Shopfloor Series books include innovative instructional features that are the signature of the series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools in the hands of your entire workforce.

Standard Work for the Shopfloor (Shopfloor Series)

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Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precisely in terms of cycle time, work in process, sequence, time, layout, and the inventory needed to conduct the activity. Standard work begins as an improvement baseline and evolves into a reliable method. It establishes the best activities and sequence steps to maximize performance and minimize waste.

In this book you will learn about:

The characteristics of standards

Key benefits and applications of standardization

Standard work concepts and calculations

Standard work steps and documentation

Using standard work manuals, charts, and worksheets

Cell staffing (line balancing and full work)

Productivity's Shopfloor Series books offer a simple, cost-effectiveapproach for building basic knowledge about key manufacturing improvement topics. Like all our Shopfloor Series books, Standard Work for the Shopfloor includes innovative instructional features that are the signature of the Shopfloor Series. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools such as pull production techniques in the hands of your entire workforce.

Complete Office Handbook: Third Edition

Susan Jaderstrom, Leonard Kruk, Joanne Miller

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Good resource 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

A good choice for the money. Gives you a up-to-date look at the changes in the field.

A Comprehensive Guide to the Office 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This is an excellent book. It covers many areas of office procedure and etiquette, including electronic forums. I would recommend this book as an excellent guide for the office.

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The administrative professional's guide to the modern office.

This revised and updated Third Edition provides the office worker with practical advice on how to survive and thrive in today's fast-paced business environment. Written by business specialists, it has detailed information on standard office practices, with special emphasis on electronic communications and information technology.

• Produced under the sponsorship and direct supervision of IAAP, International Association of Administrative Professionals
• Provides up-to-date information on the electronic office, simplifying complex tasks and procedures
• Indispensable for office personnel at every level; self-employed workers; consultants; and entrepreneurs