Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterpise

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Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterpise
by Brian H. Maskell, Bruce Baggaley
from Productivity Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Did your Lean Initiative Stall? Read this book.
  I've seen it (and lived it) multiple times. An Exec kicks off a Lean Initiative and the company creates a Lean Enterprise. At first, its all about training, Kaizen Blitz, 5S, prototype cells and Kanbans. The focus is about 95% shop floor processes. But after a while, the program starts to stall. Folks start seeing two sets of rules (traditional MRP and Lean), but none of the traditional goes away. So Lean start sounding and feeling like just a bunch of extra paperwork and steps without any obvious benefit... more info

• it really helps
  Well structured and very clear concepts, It help me to have a deep understanding of how to develop a value stream mapping. I really recommend it.

• Who' Counting & Practical Lean Accounting: 1+1>2
  "Who's Counting" and "Practical Lean Accounting" are two great books on lean accounting. I wondered some time ago, which one to read and I am glad that I could not decide, so I bought and read them both. They complement each other extremely well and each one conveys the lessons of lean accounting from a different angle.
  "Practical Lean Accounting" is a well structured textbook, approaching lean accounting in a systemized way. Starting from straight-forward shop-floor measurements, like the... more info

• The Best Management Accounting Book in Years
  "Practical Lean Accounting" is the best management accounting book I've read in 20 years - maybe more. Well written and illustrated with plenty of examples and diagrams, it adds new tools to management accounting and restores the relevance of some older ones. As such I recommend it to all management accountants and students - whether or not you are involved in lean accounting itself.
  The aim of the book is to "produce a roadmap for finance managers in companies seeking to transition their organisations... more info

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