Accounting delivers a lot of indecipherable reports. Finance rarely addresses the business leader\u2019s need for a greater understanding of the complete financial impact of decisions made as well as decisions to be made. Both functions also have a lot of internal process waste. The Value Add Accountant can provide solutions to all of these issues.<\/p>\n
Jean Cunningham and Orest Fiume wrote about their experience as CFO\u2019s creating this role in the 2003 seminal Lean Accounting text,\u00a0Real Numbers: Accounting for the Lean Organization<\/em>. In the years since, Jean has traveled the globe, consulting on Lean process improvement and waste reduction in accounting and other office processes for numerous companies great and small.<\/p>\n This book expands the\u00a0Real Numbers<\/em>\u00a0message by providing detailed examples of how to reveal accounting waste, start a personal value add transition, and get buy in on these pivotal accounting changes. This book also describes how accounting can effectively evaluate corporate waste reduction and improvement activities.<\/p>\n You will learn how adopting this new role can enable accounting and finance to proactively support business decision making and impact improved outcomes. This expanded role has both accounting operations and company-wide elements. It is initiated by applying Lean principles and tools to everyday processes to minimize mind-numbing transaction work and other waste from accounting processes. Those improvements increase available accounting capacity. This capacity is then applied to impacting the future with more time spent on internal customer-based, value adding activities for the organization.<\/p>\n Your Value Add Accountant journey starts here.<\/p>\n “If you or your company is struggling to see the benefits of\u00a0your Lean efforts in your financial information, you need to read this\u00a0book.\u00a0If you are an accountant and your\u00a0company doesn\u2019t see\u00a0you as relevant to its lean efforts, you need to read this\u00a0book.\u00a0Once again, Jean, using language\u00a0that both accountants and non-accountants can understand, describes how a\u00a0company\u2019s\u00a0accountants can add value to your Lean\u00a0Strategy.”<\/em><\/p>\n – Orest Fiume, co-Author of Real Numbers<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Lean Strategy<\/em>\u00a0and retired CFO of The Wiremold Company<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAs I read through Jean\u2019s book, I constantly thought, \u201cThis is brilliant!\u201d\u00a0But also, could not help thinking, \u201cWho the heck is not doing this!\u201d\u00a0This contradiction is the essence of the brilliance of Jean\u2019s latest writing.\u00a0 It is a solid, pragmatic, and road-tested pathway to success for you as an accountant and your entire organization.\u00a0And as Jean states at the end of the book, \u201cWe need to take action.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n – Jim Huntzinger, author and founder of Lean Frontiers and The Lean Accounting Summit<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cEvery business has an accounting function in need of improvement. I think this book is terrific. It is easy to read, has very straight forward language that can be understood by humans [unlike standard cost accounting statements] with a lot of good examples, and is a great roadmap for any financial organization that wants to eliminate waste and improve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n – Art Byrne, author of The Lean Turnaround<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Lean Turnaround Action Guide<\/em>\u00a0and former CEO of The Wiremold Company<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n “In this excellent and much-needed guide, Jean Cunningham shows how accountants can become full partners in continuous improvement efforts and why it is so critical for them to do so.\u00a0 This is a must-read for financial professionals in organizations applying Lean, and for any advocate who faces the question, \u2018Show me the numbers!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n – Jacob Stoller, journalist and author of The Lean CEO<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This book expands the\u00a0Real Numbers<\/em>\u00a0message by providing detailed examples of how to reveal accounting waste, start a personal value add transition, and get buy in on these pivotal accounting changes. This book also describes how accounting can effectively evaluate corporate waste reduction and improvement activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_cat":[19,79],"product_tag":[53],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":15,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundle_price":[],"bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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