Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470087285 ISBN 13: 9780470087282

Publisher: Wiley, 2007

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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.

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Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration

Why are some established lean enterprises so durably successful while so many others fail miserably? Because many companies attempt to adopt lean production techniques piecemeal, without fully understanding the company-wide implications of lean production methods. In Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration, the field's most innovative thinkers prepare CFOs and accounting/finance staff to alter their traditional accounting practices to fully meet the demands of lean production principles.

Starting with the Foreword by Peter Senge, Director of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Lean Accounting presents the collected insights of some of the most experienced lean accounting and performance measurement practitioners in America—including renowned?business visionary H. Thomas Johnson. This insightful book distills concrete steps that employees at all levels can use to accomplish the lean transformation together in the workplace. Unlike the Balanced Scorecard, activity-based costing and management, or many of the other tools that can be integrated into the overall?enterprise ecosystem, lean is its own ecosystem—an entirely integrated set of subsystems that cannot be adopted in a here-and-there fashion to manage a limited number of?enterprise activities. Lean Accounting provides perspectives on the ways that established lean enterprises treat accounting and?performance measurement practices as subsystems that support an integrated approach to?product and service delivery.

Organized into three comprehensive parts, Part One addresses the lean principles, enterprise design, and leadership?characteristics that form the foundation of a successful lean transformation. Part Two discusses adaptive thinking in the appropriate application of lean performance measurements and the way lean systems use lean measures to intrinsically motivate continuous employee performance improvements. Part Three builds on this foundation with an in-depth?exploration of the accounting challenges that support the principles and goals of the lean system environment, such as standard costing methods, regulatory compliance, the shortcomings of traditional accounting systems and tools, pricing custom products without a standard costing system, the ways that?accounting motivates behavior in the lean enterprise, system designs for lean accounting, barriers to lean accounting, customer-driven lean cost management, and strategic deployment?to drive profitable growth.

The Toyota Production System is unquestionably the gold standard of lean practices, marked by continuous, sustainable adaptation and well-being that place Toyota at the top of a highly competitive marketplace. The book provides an in-depth chapter-by-chapter treatment of the many different ways that Toyota uses its integrated system to maintain its competitive advantage. In addition, each chapter describes clear steps to help executive leaders and managers work with fellow employees to lay down the cultural foundations necessary to support sustainable lean processes.

A must-read for all CFOs, controllers, management accountants, and consultants, Lean Accounting will help readers readily adapt their practices in the lean manufacturing environment.

About the Author

Joe Stenzel is Editor in Chief of Cost Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470087285
• ISBN 13: 9780470087282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Stenzel Joe