The Lean Accounting Guidebook (Currently Unavailable)

Author: Steven Bragg

The Lean Accounting Guidebook reveals how to streamline the accounting department with over 150 improvement tips for billing, collections, cost accounting, fixed assets, payables, payroll, and more.

Publication Date: March 2014

Designed For
The Lean Accounting Guidebook is designed for both professionals and students. Professionals can use it as a reference tool for upgrading their accounting systems, while it provides students with an overview of how the accounting department should operate.

Topics Covered

• Overview of Lean Accounting
• Lean Customer Billing
• Lean Cash Receipts
• Lean Check Receipts Processing (No Lockbox)
• Lean Accounts Payable
• Lean Payroll
• Lean Financial Statements
• Lean Credit Management
• Lean Collections
• Lean Inventory Accounting
• Lean Cost Accounting
• Lean Fixed Asset Accounting
• The Lean general Ledger Environment
• Lean Budgeting
• Lean Filing

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the tools used to create a lean accounting system
• Identify the techniques used to reduce billing problems
• Define the steps in the processing of cash receipts
• Recognize the techniques used to streamline the processing of payables
• Define the methods available for creating a leaner payroll process flow
• Recognize the revisions used to accelerate the closing process
• Recognize the tools used to manage the collections function
• Recognize the types of protections available for mitigating credit losses
• Identify 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
• Recognize the methods used to streamline and verify the budget model
• Identify the techniques available for minimizing employee movement within the accounting department
• Identify the situations in which weak controls are acceptable

Level
Overview

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Accounting (13 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None