This course gives learners a thorough grounding of the main issues in Lean Accounting.
The purpose of management accounting is to support decision-making and performance management in an organization. Lean Accounting is an approach to contribution costing, which focuses on business processes and calculates the contribution to corporate profits of each process or value stream. Lean Accounting is designed to support the lean management philosophy, which is about optimizing each business process. Therefore, Lean Accounting focuses on improving the flow of work through a business process. It provides a variety of flexible tools to measure, manage, and improve performance.
This course gives learners a thorough grounding in the main issues in Lean Accounting.
Topics covered include:
The course also contains an appendix giving a brief overview of the Theory of Constraints and Throughput Accounting. Throughput Accounting is an approach to management accounting designed to align with the philosophy of the Theory of Constraints.
Business author and consultant, specialising in performance measurement and improvement
I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the UK and work as an author of business courses and a process improvement consultant. I have over 30 years' experience and live near Stirling in Scotland, with my wife, daughter and Cocker Spaniel. I aim to make my courses accessible and understandable. My courses focus on business topics including KPIs, performance measurement, approaches to business improvement, Agile and Lean. I hope you enjoy my courses.
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