The Accounting Environment: What It Really Means to Go Lean (Currently Unavailable)

Author: Ron Rael

CPE Credit:  2 hours for CPAs

Lean Management is your key to increased productivity and profitability. Yet lean is often maligned and frequently misunderstood. This webcast demonstrates that you can obtain immense gains from having a lean accounting function.

Lean is an attitude and method of operating and not a management by objective program or cost-cutting initiative.

You may think that your finance team is as lean as it can be. Not true! In a truly lean environment you have more people instead of less, you have less to do, and everything is done right the first time. Does your finance team currently resemble this concept?

Publication Date: October 2015

Topics Covered

  • Assess if your department is currently lean.
  • Apply the elements of lean.
  • Create a starting point for adopting lean.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify proven lean techniques that make the accounting function a value added unit within your firm.
  • Recognize where you can start the process of making your finance function truly lean.

Level
Overview

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Accounting (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None

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