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Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today‘s increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive, accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless of what you call it, Lean accounting is a management accounting system that should be part of every worker‘s daily activities. The Controller as Lean Leader: A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System delineates the differences between cost accounting and cost management. It uses a story format to present a compilation of experiences; some good, some bad, and some humorous. The story follows a fictional manufacturing entity embarking on a Lean change management journey for the second time having failed at its first attempt at Lean implementation a few years earlier. As the story progresses, readers gain an understanding of what the company will do differently this time around to ensure it doesn‘t slip backward again as the transformation unfolds. Illustrates the various approaches to Lean implementationExplains Target Costing and describes how to use it to get your budget right the first time aroundExamines the concept of systems and the importance of defining values in your businessDescribes what the purpose of a Lean Human Resources (HR) system should beIntroduces, with visuals, the little-known importance of the timing of the implementation and integration of the four integral parts of the Lean Cost Management System with the five Lean principlesThe main character, the Lean Controller, presents her ideas with visuals throughout the book. Discussions between the Lean controller and employees at various levels of the organization illustrate valuable lessons. The many faces of the Lean Controller as expressed thro

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies Other manufacturing technologies

• Full title: Controller as Lean Leader
• Author: Sue Elizabeth Sondergelt
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781138438354
• ISBN: 9781138438354
• ID: 18171054
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. July 2017

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