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  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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  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 […]

Excellent - Eddy Peach (Erie PA)
Great book, great ideas… inspiring! (or, at least as inspirational as you can get I guess, for a book about acctg)
Great practical advice - Damien Kelly (Chicago, USA)
I first came across David Parmenters work on [bettermanagement.com] where he has a number of artcles and webinars posted. What I like about […]

Companies in Asia, Europe, America and some in New Zealand are recognising that the existing budget process cannot continue. It has been with us, some say, since the Roman calendar was adopted by the western world. It is now seen by many that the budget process is a hindrance to management rather than a help. […]

“Quarterly rolling planning (QRP) is the most important management tool of this decade and is a process that will revolutionise any public or private sector organisation!”QRP removes the four main barriers to success that an annual planning process erects. An annual funding regime where budget holders are encouraged to be dysfunctional, a reporting regime base […]

In earlier articles I promoted the use of quarterly rolling forecast forecasts, explained what they are and set out the lessons that organisation have learnt, the painful way. Now I wish to look at the implementation issues.
Whilst all implementations will be unique they should have many common features just like a fingerprint. This article will […]

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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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  • 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.

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• Recent Posts

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  • Article: Timely Annual Planning Process – 10 Working Days or Less!
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  • Article: How to implement a balanced scorecard in 16 Weeks not 16 months

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