The Lean Accounting Guidebook ON DEMAND
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14.0 Credits
Member Price $364.00
Non-Member Price $419.00
Overview
This course shows the accountant how to save money and minimize errors by streamlining the accounting department. It does so by describing more than 150 improvement tips for billing, collections, cost accounting, fixed assets, payables, payroll, and more. The accountant can use such tools as value stream mapping, flowcharting, traffic analysis, and measurement systems to decide which improvements would be the most useful to install. In short, this course provides the accountant with a complete toolkit of solutions for improving the accounting department.
Highlights
Overview of lean accounting.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, CFOs, controllers, financial professionals, and auditors.
Objectives
Cite the tools used to create a lean accounting system. Identify the techniques used to reduce billing problems. Specify the steps in the processing of cash receipts. Cite the techniques used to streamline the processing of payables. Specify the methods available for creating a leaner payroll process flow. Recognize the revisions used to accelerate the closing process. Cite the types of protections available for mitigating credit losses. Recognize the tools used to manage the collections function. Specify the methods used to increase inventory record accuracy. State the types of traditional cost accounting reports, and the situations in which these reports can be used or avoided, and more.
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Bragg, Western CPE
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 70 business books. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast.
Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine (summa cum laude).
Non-Member Price $419.00
Member Price $364.00