Webinar recordings provide on-demand access to expert discussions on cost modeling, profitability analysis, and scenario planning using ImpactECS. Watch past sessions to learn how organizations apply cost drivers and financial insight to improve performance.
Originally presented at the Institute of Management Accountants ACE2021 Conference. Recent events have taught finance and costing leaders that unpredictability is the new norm—making effective cost planning a necessity. Cost data impacts organizational decisions from quoting new business, selecting vendors and suppliers, planning production, and servicing customers. The most innovative teams have enabled costing models …
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Understanding customer profitability is essential for making better pricing, service, and investment decisions, yet many organizations struggle to turn analysis into action. Challenges such as inconsistent cost data, unclear allocation logic, and limited cross-functional alignment often prevent teams from confidently using customer-level insights to guide decisions. This webinar explores how organizations are approaching customer profitability …
Post-production activities often represent a significant portion of total product cost, yet they are frequently the least visible and hardest to manage. Labor, overhead, rework, and downstream activities are commonly aggregated or estimated, limiting an organization’s ability to understand true cost drivers and their impact on profitability. This webinar examines why post-production costing is so …
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Process manufacturers face growing pressure to understand product costs with greater accuracy and consistency. Yet many organizations are limited by ERP costing constraints or heavily reliant on spreadsheets that are difficult to maintain and scale. This webinar focuses on how leading manufacturers are strengthening their product costing processes to produce reliable, decision-ready insight that supports …
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Manufacturers rely on accurate, transparent product costing to support confident decisions across pricing, operations, and investment planning. Yet many organizations struggle to establish consistent costing practices due to limited ERP capabilities, fragmented data, or heavy dependence on spreadsheets. This webinar explores how leading manufacturing organizations are elevating costing and cost transparency as strategic priorities to …
Quoting new products is one of the most challenging decisions organizations face. Limited cost history, changing assumptions, and pressure to move quickly often lead teams to rely on estimates, averages, or disconnected spreadsheets. This webinar focuses on how cost-based quoting helps organizations bring greater discipline and confidence to new product pricing decisions, even when uncertainty …
Traditional budgeting processes often struggle to keep pace with changing market conditions, operational complexity, and shifting demand. Static assumptions, limited cost visibility, and long planning cycles can leave organizations reacting instead of adapting. This webinar explores how stronger cost and profitability insight enables a more agile approach to budgeting, helping teams respond faster and plan …
ERP systems hold a tremendous amount of operational and financial data, yet many organizations struggle to turn that data into actionable cost and profitability insight. Standard ERP reporting is often designed for control and compliance, not for understanding true cost drivers, margin performance, or decision-level profitability. As a result, teams are left supplementing ERP outputs …
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