• Workshops & Course Materials

  • Upcoming Workshops in 2008

  • Templates From the Courses

• Testimonals

  Some feedback I've received from my courses is listed here. If you have recently attended a course, please contact me with your feedback so I can publish it.

• Become a Certified Coach

  I am seeking like minded people around the world who wish to help organisations adopt 21st century performance management techniques.

• David's Books

  

  Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs

  Press Release | Get it from amazon.com | Electronic Templates | Reviews

  

  Pareto’s 80/20 rule for corporate accountants

  Press Release | Get it from amazon.com | Electronic Templates | Reviews

• An offer to Universities

  I would welcome the opportunity to deliever a keynote address at your tertiary institution when I am next in your vicinity. I am happy to provide this service where we can organise it around my schedule.

• Links

  • Action Meetings
  • BetterManagement.com
  • Corporate Accountants Better Practices
  • Decision Based Reporting
  • Quarterly Rolling Forecasting
  • Quick Annual Planning
  • Quick Month-end Reporting
  • Virtual Group
  • Waymark Solutions
  • Winning Key Performance Indicators

Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, in their groundbreaking work The Balanced Scorecard, indicate that 16 weeks is an adequate time frame to set up a Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Why then does 16 weeks so often become 16 months? And, if BSC processes have revolutionised organisations, why aren’t all organisations, with more than, say, […]

I recently attended your ‘Quick Month-end Reporting’ through CIMA and although somewhat skeptical on the day, I thought you would be interested in some feed back on what was achieved in month one.
Our reporting timetable was somewhat flexible and figures tended to be prepared for BPG (Business Planning Group) 3rd Wednesday of the Month and […]

Built to honour the Duke of Marlborough’s victory over the French, this fine stately home is one of the treasures of England.The Finance team, after attending David’s course have managed a sweet victory of their own.Following our attendance at your inspiring two days of presentations we went away convinced we could achieve our month end […]

Below are some questions and answers from the webcast I did for bettermanagement.com “A Balanced Scorecard in 16 Weeks, Not 16 Months” the other day. It is available online in and it is free to register and listen to the archived copy.

We’re part-way through a long implementation which isn’t working. What actions should we […]

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• How-To Guides For Sale

  I have a number of white papers based on 'How-To Implement...' designed for the corporate accountant who wants to make a difference. These guides give you the A-to-Z steps to implementing practices from winning finance teams. All papers are supported with additional electronic templates.

  • Conquest Management - Winning Management Practices ^New
  • Month end reporting in day 3 or less
  • Decision based reporting
  • 50 ways to improve the intranet
  • Accounts Payable Better Practices
  • The new thinking on KPIs
  • Quarterly Rolling Forecasts
  • The 20+ System improvements for all corporate accountants
  • Annual Planning process in 2 weeks not 2 months.
  • Audit Clearance within 15 days
  • Implementing a planning tool

• Reports, Checklists, Toolkits

  Due to readers requests, I am making available for purchase all templates used in the KPI book. This will save KPI teams the burden of starting from scratch.

• Articles and Q&A

  • Better Practice Studies
  • Beyond Budgeting - Rolling Forecasts
  • Corporate Services
  • Extracts from Management Summiting
  • Extracts from Pareto's 80-20 Book
  • Fast Month-Ends
  • Finance Team Better Practices
  • Human Resources
  • Miscellaneous
  • Published Articles
  • Questions and Answers
  • Testimonials
  • Workshops

• Recent Posts

  • New White Paper: Conquest Management
  • Articles and Books to read for Corporate Accountants
  • Article: Timely Annual Planning Process – 10 Working Days or Less!
  • Article: Finding Your Organisation’s Critical Success Factors
  • Article: How to implement a balanced scorecard in 16 Weeks not 16 months

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