Management Accounting Best Practices

Author : Steven M. Bragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470179932

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Management Accounting Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg Pdf

Praise for Management Accounting Best Practices "It doesn't matter where you start reading, even the most experienced accountant will find some useful ideas." —Alan H. Boycott, Chartered Accountant, Düsseldorf, Germany "This is one of the best books about new accounting practices in practical accounting. I highly recommend this book for accountants of all levels." —Andrei Ralko, Controller, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, NY The only practices worth followingare the best practices... Destined to become an essential desktop tool in helping professionals make management decisions in accounting, Management Accounting Best Practices introduces over 100 best practices from accounting expert Steven Bragg for questions such as: How does the system of interlocking budgets work? What does a sample budget look like? What best practices can I apply to the budgeting process? How can I integrate the budget into the corporate control system? How do throughput concepts impact the budget? Now, when members of your management team come calling with questions, you'll have the answers at your fingertips, in Management Accounting Best Practices. It's the easy-to-use, daily reference manual for every accountant in a management position.

Author : G. Gregoriou,N. Finch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230361553

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Best Practices in Management Accounting by G. Gregoriou,N. Finch Pdf

Management accounting has undergone significant evolution moving away from rigid budgeting programs and static output measures to comprehensive approaches of value identification and measurement. The book provides case studies, commentary and analysis from international experts in management accounting across the contemporary focus areas.

Author : Paul M. Collier,Anthony J Berry,Gary T Burke
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750680400

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Risk and Management Accounting by Paul M. Collier,Anthony J Berry,Gary T Burke Pdf

Presents the findings from two research projects on risk: (1) a pilot study comprising four mini-case studies on how risk impacted upon budgeting; and (2) a comprehensive survey and analysis of risk management in organisations, in particular how it impacted on both internal controls and on the role of the management accountant.

Author : Joe Stenzel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470173756

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Lean Accounting by Joe Stenzel Pdf

Praise for Lean Accounting Best Practices for Sustainable Integration "Anyone involved in a lean transformation inevitably bumps up against the vagaries of the accounting systems that reward overproduction and waste and seem to punish true improvement. We wonder what would happen if the accountants actually came to the production floor and witnessed firsthand the havoc created by their systems. This volume gathers together some of the best thinkers to take a critical look at traditional cost accounting and defines a path forward to 'lean accounting.'" —Jeff Liker, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan "Joe Stenzel has put together a timely compendium of writings from thought leaders in lean accounting. The viewpoints in this fine book are diverse and yet proclaim a consistent message: that conventional management accounting is broken--and here is how to fix it." —Richard J. Schonberger, President, Schonberger & Associates "If you are serious about understanding and implementing Lean Accounting in conjunction with your Lean Enterprise journey, this book will illuminate the specific techniques, but more importantly, will explain the cultural changes that are a prerequisite for success." —Jerry Solomon, Vice President of Operations, Hunt Valley, for MarquipWardUnited, a division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. Insights and strategies from the most experienced lean accounting and performance measurement?practitioners in America Learn how to integrate the proven lean methodologies embedded in the Toyota Production System with Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration. In this comprehensive guide, leading accounting and performance measurement practitioners analyze the current business climate and provide CFOs and accounting/finance personnel with step-by-step guidelines to seamlessly and successfully integrate sustainable, lean accounting principles within their enterprise. Be a lean success story with Lean Accounting.

Author : Steven M. Bragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470464137

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Accounting Control Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg Pdf

Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition Control systems are needed to ensure that a company's assets are used in the most productive manner and that they are not lost through fraudulent activities. However, an excessive use of controls can interfere with the efficient completion of activities within a company. Whether your company is in start-up mode, installing new systems, or simply dissatisfied with existing controls due to fraudulent losses, Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition is the reference handbook every accountant and systems analyst can use to ensure that their company has constructed a durable and efficient set of controls. This easy-to-use handbook clearly explains how to develop an effective system of accounting and operational controls and offers the best practices with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies to protect organizations from suffering further substantial losses of assets and reputation that occur from financial dishonesty within an organization. Author and renowned accounting expert Steven Bragg provides control flowcharts in every chapter for all major processes as well as a thorough set of corporate policies designed to support the system of controls. Now containing chapters on budgeting, collections, and acquisition integration, this valuable reference handbook offers essential information on control best practices for: Order entry, credit, and shipment Inventory management Billing Cash-handling Payroll Fixed assets Budgeting Financial reporting Just-in-time manufacturing Petty cash And many more Encompassing all of the major accounting and operational processes with nearly 500 controls presented in basic, intermediate, and advanced layers, from those needed for a very basic paper-based system, to computerized systems, to the use of advanced best practice enhancements in computerized systems, Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition is the only guidebook needed to devise a set of controls precisely tailored to every company's system.

Author : Steven M. Bragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118428665

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Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual by Steven M. Bragg Pdf

Now in a fifth edition, Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual: A Blueprint for Running an Effective and Efficient Department is a how-to guide on creating an effective and efficient accounting department policies and procedures manual. Written by Steven Bragg, the foremost authority in accounting and controllership issues, the new edition includes: A new, complimentary Web site providing readers with the foundation for creating or enhancing their accounting department policies and procedures manual More coverage of accounting procedures including inventory, billing, cash receipts, pricing, order entry, credit, collections, sales returns, capital budgeting, cash forecasting, payroll, and closing the books Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual is the tool every accounting department needs to regularize and systematize its procedures to match the best in the industry.

Author : Steven M. Bragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118417805

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Accounting Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg Pdf

ACCOUNTING BEST PRACTICES Seventh Edition Today's accounting staffs are called on to work magic: process transactions, write reports, improve efficiency, create new processes—all at the lowest possible cost, using an ever-shrinking proportion of total corporate expenses. Sound impossible? Not if your staff is using the best practices for accounting. Fully updated in a new edition, Accounting Best Practices, Seventh Edition draws from renowned accounting leader Steven Bragg's extensive experience in successfully developing, operating, and consulting various accounting departments. This invaluable resource has the at-your-fingertips information you need, whether you've been searching for ways to cut costs in your accounting department, or just want to offer more services without the added expense. The best practices featured in this excellent step-by-step manual constitute need-to-know information concerning the most advanced techniques and strategies for increasing productivity, reducing costs, and monitoring existing accounting systems. This new edition boasts over 400 best practices, with fifty new to this edition in the areas of taxation, finance, collections, general ledger, accounts payable, and billing. Now featuring a corresponding seven-minute podcast for each chapter found on the book's companion website, Accounting Best Practices is the perfect, do-it-yourself book for the manager who wants to significantly boost their accounting department.

Author : Kevin R. Callahan,Gary S. Stetz,Lynn M. Brooks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470136959

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Project Management Accounting by Kevin R. Callahan,Gary S. Stetz,Lynn M. Brooks Pdf

Praise for Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability "You don't need to be a Six Sigma Black Belt or a CPA to understand the principles and the practical tools presented by Callahan, Stetz, and Brooks in Project Management Accounting. Their approach focuses on sound financial practices that will improve the ROI of your project whether it is your first or your hundred-and-first experience." —Barry Van Dyck, PhD Director of Degree Programs, Executive Education, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame "Project Management Accounting serves as a solid resource for the project manager seeking to leverage the tools of accounting and finance to maximize the quality of project outcomes." —Jeffrey J. Lampe, CFA Vice President, Hopewell Ventures "Project Management Accounting clearly communicates fundamental accounting principles and applies them skillfully to the field of project management . . . even seasoned accounting managers will likely benefit from the application to project management. Talented project managers will find enough finance and accounting tools to transition toward profit and loss responsibility. This book will serve as a handy reference." —Warren Davidson CEO, Global Source Mfg. "This is a must-read for everyone in business, whether you have made a career in project management, operations, facilities, or anywhere else. Project Management Accounting provides the framework to understand not only how to manage any project, but how the project interacts with the different functions of the company for the overall good. When applied, [this book] will improve the profitability of the company through an understanding of the costs and benefits of each project." —Michael Alte Management Director, ArvinMeritor Today's project managers need to understand finance and accounting concepts in order to make both informed decisions and a greater contribution to their organization. Written for readers with limited business backgrounds, Project Management Accounting is an invaluable guide to successfully performing projects using sound finance and accounting concepts. With the collected insights of authors and respected industry experts Kevin Callahan, Gary Stetz, and Lynne Brooks, Project Management Accounting offers guidance that project managers can use right away to know how to budget appropriately. Brief in presentation and rich in content, Project Management Accounting equips the leaders of today and tomorrow to hit the ground running with a profound business perspective in their current work and in future projects.

Author : Steven M. Bragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471189503

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Accounting Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg Pdf

A revised and updated Second Edition of the guide that lets you turn your adequate practices into Best Practices Accounting Best Practices provides you with the most advanced techniques and strategies available today to help your business cut costs and improve accounting operations-regardless of your company's size or holdings. Accounting expert Steven Bragg has updated the Second Edition to include fifty new best practices, expanded appendices, and a new chapter on finance. Featuring an easy-to-read format and covering a wide variety of accounting areas, this essential accounting reference will help enhance and optimize your financial bottom line. In addition, you'll find: Flowcharts of some of the most complex best practices available Concise indices of best practices, classified by type of result and functional area within the accounting field Numerous expanded appendices cross-referencing the best practices to help you easily customize them for your business New best practices, updated chapters, and much more Whether you are an accounting or financial manager, an internal or external auditor, or an accounting consultant, you'll find Accounting Best Practices, Second Edition an indispensable resource-and perfect for all your fiscal needs.

Author : National Association of Accountants
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Managerial accounting
ISBN : UCLA:L0068140870

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Statements on Management Accounting by National Association of Accountants Pdf

Author : Ralph Adler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136007309

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Management Accounting by Ralph Adler Pdf

Understand how to integrate management accounting into your TQM and JIT systems * Learn how to use Value Added Accounting to make better strategic decisions * Find out how to use advanced costing techniques to correctly price products and services * Trace the development of modern best practice back to the breakthrough insights of the field's leading experts Every modern company now has to compete in a market environment that is becoming ever faster, more complex and competitive. Management accounting must respond to these changes, otherwise its risks becoming irrelevant to real business needs. This book demonstrates how the discipline can raise itself up to a new level of performance, allowing it to cope with challenges such as flexible manufacturing systems, flatter and leaner organisations, strategic alliances and globalisation. It explains how cutting edge management accounting techniques can transform a firm's operations and prospects, enabling it to become the best of the best.

Author : M.A. Sahaf
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789325969247

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Management Accounting: Principles & Practice, 3rd Edition by M.A. Sahaf Pdf

This book is meant for students of accounting, management and business studies. It not only describes the principles, procedures and techniques of management accounting, but also explains and analyses the core concepts that have driven the development of the subject for decades. The book is a perfect blend of conceptual and practical approaches to accounting. NEW IN THIS EDITION • Completely revised and updated • New chapters on strategic management accounting, product costing, and service costing • Coverage of total quality management (TQM), just-in-time (JIT), life cycle costing, and Kaizen costing • Worked out solutions to problems and latest professional examination questions

Author : René Stienemann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640319688

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Comparative Management Accounting by René Stienemann Pdf

Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: 1,7, University of M nster, 90 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The competitive environment for companies is steadily becoming more challenging and demanding. Large planned company take-overs as recently announced from multinational corporations like for instance MITTAL STEEL or E.ON AG indicate the demand for more sophisticated and advanced management accounting information in order to react properly on the external market pressures worldwide. Multinational companies regularly have to cope with different institutional environments, management practices, techniques as well as cultural understandings between the respective countries. While in this context the field of financial accounting has already attracted much attention from the academic world on a comparative nationwide level, the area of internal management accounting has largely been a concern of approaches focussing on single countries only. These approaches have been analysed by national academic scholars and as a consequence also influenced the practices in other countries. However, in order to initiate a discussion and to highlight best practices, novelties and inefficiencies in the management accounting world, a sophisticated comparison drawing on the differences and similarities in the observed countries has only recently been conducted in the management accounting literature. Furthermore, different labels, in different languages, are used to refer to management accounting around the world. The relatively young discipline of comparative management accounting tries to fill this gap in management accounting research by determining the degree of diffusion of applied concepts and practices in different countries. The present paper analyses the different characteristics of management accounting in Germany, the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the United States of America (U.S.). The paper is organi

Author : Steven M. Bragg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471468462

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Accounting Best Practices by Steven M. Bragg Pdf

New best practices for the evolving business Everyone knows that adopting accounting best practices can improve efficiency and reduce error rates in the accounting department, but less obvious are the benefits gained from better reporting of information to other parts of the company. More accurate data reported faster can play an integral role in both short- and long-term strategic planning. Accounting guru Steven Bragg explains how to leverage this and other opportunities in his authoritative Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition. Bragg adds over sixty new best practices to his benchmark resource, concentrating primarily on the areas of: Internal auditing Accounts payable Finance Payroll Bragg highlights the dos and don'ts of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. Accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants will find Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition to be a peerless resource.

Author : Alan Upchurch
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0273622277

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Management Accounting: Principles and Practice by Alan Upchurch Pdf