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• David's Books

  

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

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  Pareto’s 80/20 rule for corporate accountants

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• 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.

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Extract from “Pareto’s 80/20 Rule for the Corporate Accountant” published by John Wiley & Sons Inc
Background
This sounds impossible yet it is achieved. It takes good organization and recognition that the annualplanning process is not adding value, instead it is undermining an efficient allocation of resources,encouraging dysfunctional budget holder behaviour, negating the value of monthly […]

Most organizations know their success factors, however few organizations have:

worded their success factors appropriately
segregated out success factors from their strategic objectives
sifted through them to find their critical ones – their CSFs
communicated the CSFs to staff

Finding an organization’s CSFs is relatively simple step, and is the focus of this article.  I want to show you a […]

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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
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  • 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

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• Recent Posts

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