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Lean Accounting®^{bma inc.}

Supporting the transformation to the Lean Enterprise … (see below for links to specific courses offered)

Description:
The widespread introduction of lean manufacturing in recent years has raised challenges in every other area of manufacturing companies.  It has become clear that the accounting, control, and measurement systems must change for companies seriously implementing lean thinking.  As with lean manufacturing, these changes affect many aspects of the company’s processes and represent a profound change in the way the company approaches the management and control of the business.

It is not possible, in the longer term, to sustain lean manufacturing and lean thinking without making significant change to the organization’s accounting, control, and measurement methods.  These methods represent an important part of the company’s culture and, as that culture changes with the introduction of lean thinking and lean manufacturing, it is important to change the company’s financial control and tracking.

There are a number of aspects of Lean Accounting ® ranging from the obvious need to significantly eliminate waste in the financial processes through to the conceptual changes associated with Lean Management Accounting, Target Costing, and Value Stream Cost Management.  The changes required have a positive and a negative element.  The company must remove the aspects of the accounting, control, and measurement systems that are harmful to a lean approach.  The company must introduce new methods and approaches that support and enhance lean manufacturing and lean thinking over the long term.

The following education classes and consulting services (offered through BMA Inc.) are designed to assist companies that are serious about lean manufacturing to understand and implement the changes needed to bring their accounting, control, and measurement systems into line with lean thinking and lean manufacturing:

Introduction to Lean Accounting-1.5 days Solving the Standard Costing Problem-1 day Strategic Performance Measures for Lean Mfg-1 Day Lean Accounting Implementation Opportunity

Prerequisites:
These courses provide opportunity to bring key financial and operations team members together to learn how to get the maximum benefit from your company’s strategy and commitment to lean manufacturing and the lean enterprise.   To obtain maximum benefit, participants should have a familiarity with lean thinking and the principles of lean.

For additional information contact info@hpsinc.ca

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