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Best Business Books 2010 from strategy+business

Looking for stocking stuffers for the business person in your life!  This year’s list of the top business books from...

It’s the Cost!!!

  Today I met with finance and operations managers for a manufacturing company that didn’t really understand the unique costs...

Don’t Force Your Managerial Accounting Process into a Transactional System

I have spent the majority of my technology career in the Manufacturing Computer Systems space and have been most impressed...

Black Boxes: Great for Airplanes, Terrible for Forecasting

We’ve all heard of black boxes on airplanes that track critical flight data. Without discrimination, the black box records everything...

What’s more important, standard costs or actual costs?

Professors Jennifer Dosch, CMA and Joel Wilson, CPA, recently published an article in Strategic Finance Magazine discussing the differences between...

How have the changes in the world economy affected how your company views cost management?

A recent article published by Jonathan Schiff and Allen Schff discussed the importance of cost leadership to tackle these challenging...

Is your finance role “strategic”?

Alix Stuart of CFO.com asks this question about the role of CFOs in today’s businesses. Do you find that your...

How has SOX 404 affected your bottom line?

Recently, CFO.com published an arcticle that shared the following fact: “In a study that took nearly two years to complete,...

How important is forecasting to the cost accounting function at your company?

Most people associate cost accounting with analyzing past events – calculating actual costs, analyzing yields and variances, and creating reports....

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