Seminars offered by Focused
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Leading Edge Practices In
Cost Management - (2-day workshop) - 16 CPE
credits
COURSE
OBJECTIVES
• To examine how leading edge cost
management practices are different from “traditional” cost
accounting or GAAP and why that is important
• To provide cost management practitioners and other specialists
with up-to-date information on current cost management practices
• To establish useful insight on how an organization can get a solid
ROI for their cost management initiatives
BENEFITS
• Get ROI from attending this seminar!
• Identify at least 5 solid ways to reduce cost and increase profits
of your organization
• Assess cost management and measurement practices of your
organization
• Prepare recommendations to improve cost management in your
organization
PROVEN WAYS TO REDUCE COSTS AND INCREASE PROFITS
• Learn about leading edge cost management practices
• Discover how they interact with each other to provide a
comprehensive solution
• Operations and finance team members learn what managing cost is
really all about
• Analyze your current costing practices and determine why they
don’t cut it
How to
Implement Activity Based Costing - (2-day workshop) - 16 CPE
credits
- The
Operational Method
“The course that made us famous.”
A practical 2-day workshop teaching a proven methodology for implementing ABC. The cornerstone of better,
effective decision making is accurate, actionable information. Activity Based Costing is the tool to provide
the organization with better information to increase profits, reduce costs and improve efficiency. If you
are thinking of implementing Activity Based Costing or need to re-invigorate your existing ABC system, this
workshop is for you. Through the use of case studies and real life examples, learn the correct way to
implement ABC without the need for expensive consultants. Learn the methodology used by hundreds of
organizations to actually implement ABC..
Software independent!
This workshop gives you all the information, tools and resources you need to begin your
implementation immediately:
- It tells you, step-by-step, how to do it
- It shows you how to analyze results and move your ABC project towards delivering value-based management
- It does not focus on software, but it does help you understand what you need to do before you make the software decision
- It gives you real life examples
- It helps you improve/restart a current ABC system
How
to Implement Activity Based Budgeting
(2-day
workshop) - 16 CPE
credits
For years, Activity Based Costing (ABC) has been seen as an off-line analysis, an experimental project, a
second set of books, a one-time analysis; or, often as a failed initiative. Now Focused Management
brings you Activity Based Planning & Budgeting – the key to bringing ABC out of the
wilderness and integrating it with your Planning & Measurement process. This 2 day hands-on workshop
offers a complete, practical budgeting & feedback process; not just the mechanics
of ‘back-calculating’ demand through ABC:
- Includes how to integrate management targets and approvals
- Shows you how to build-in fundamental process considerations to the plan – process improvements, process capacity, process demand (e.g. more orders or bigger orders)
- Considers alternative schemes for monthly performance feedback
- Covers systems architecture issues – how do ABC, ABB, the general ledger and EIS/OLAP systems integrate?
- Fully integrated case study reinforces the learning throughout the workshop
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How
to Implement Performance Measurement & Management
(2-day workshop) - 16 CPE
credits
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
By linking what people do (activities), with how work gets done (process), with what the
organization wants to accomplish (goals), with stakeholder requirements, a clear, consistent set
of measurable performance expectations can be delivered to everyone in the organization. This
alignment will help drive the company towards those organizational goals within a clearly defined
performance architecture. Learn how to implement the Performance Architecture.
This workshop is a practical way to deploy the principles of the Balanced Scorecard and link
organization wide goals to performance of departments, processes and individuals. Through this workshop you will:
- Understand the seven phases of integrated performance measurement
- Appreciate the uses and benefits of measurement tools
- Understand the implementation issues for an integrated performance measurement system
- Be able to practice the approaches to integrated performance measurement through case study examples
- Understand the three levels of performance - organization, process and activity
- Review of the best performance measurement software.
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How to Implement Business
Process Analysis
(2-day workshop) - 16 CPE
credits
You cannot manage what you don't understand.
Process Analysis is more than putting together nice Visio drawings. Business process analysis
teaches you how to effectively understand, document and manage business processes.
The Business Process Analysis workshop provides a working knowledge of the theory and tools of
business process performance analysis, measurement and improvement preparing the participant to
take active responsibility in Process Documentation, Process Trouble Shooting, Process Improvement
and/or on-going Process Management Support
This two-day participative workshop combines process performance theory, methodology, tools and
application exercises, and is well supported by hard- and soft-copy manuals, materials and hand
outs. The case study and discussion format allows for more hands-on work and depth of instruction.
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How
to Implement Value Based Management
(2-day
workshop) - 16 CPE
Credits
Organizations everywhere are concerned
with “value creation”. Executives
are constantly searching for actions to be taken to “drive
value”. Many
company’s have changed their measurement systems to include
Shareholder Value Added (SVA) or Economic Value Added (EVA) which
are known generically as Economic Profit. Based on SVA,
Wall Street analysts calculate Market Value Added (MVA) to determine
how to value stock price / valuation. Few organizations have managed to develop methods to deploy
the use of economic profit at every level.
Value Based Management (VBM) is the integrating methodology
and series of tools which are used to drive creation of value
throughout the organization
In
this course, you will learn what Economic Profit is; how to
calculate economic profit for your organization (SVA), how value is
created and destroyed, what value drivers are, and how you use them
to drive profits, cash flow and share value. Through the use of real life case studies, you will
understand how some basic management methodologies can be used in
conjunction with value drivers to create wealth and how Balanced
Scorecard, Process Management and Activity Based Costing are used to
make VBM a reality.
This
workshop will convince attendees of how essential it is to have
disciplined financial and operational methods that focus the
organization with common goals, language and principles in order to
drive highly effective performance.
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an In-house seminar date
How
to Implement Activity Based Management - In Local Government and the
Public Sector (2-day workshop) - 16 CPE
credits
Learn how to
implement Activity Based Costing using our
proven 7-step methodology within the public sector.
Focus on your taxpayers, customers and employees and learn
how to integrate cost information into a performance measurement
system.
CFO/Controller:
Strategic Business Partner and Internal Advisor - (2-day
workshop) - 16 CPE
credits - Featuring a Professional Skills Assessment
Workshop - This course gives an intensive look at the
competencies and skills needed by 21st century CFOs,
Controllers and financial professionals who aspire to be widely
valued strategic business partners and trusted internal
advisors.
Integrating the Best
of TQM, ABC/M and the Balanced Scorecard - 2 Day -
16 CPE credits
- A Comprehensive Management
and Measurement Approach - Total Quality Management,
Activity-Based Costing, Performance Measurement, Theory of
Constraints, and several others are all major management systems,
proven and tested in the field, and proclaimed by various
advocates as "The Path." This course is designed to make
hard-nosed strategic sense out of the "alphabet soup"
array of viable business systems and tactics available.
Best Practices in
Strategic Performance Measurement and Management
- (2-day seminar) - 16 CPE credits
- Featuring "The Balanced Scorecard" - The strength of
metrics combined with strategic vision yields a management
framework for creating 1) organizational alignment, 2)
clarification of strategic intent, and 3) focus on value-creating
activities. This course presents an integrated model for
strategic performance measurement and management (SPM2)
, using field-tested methods derived from "best
practices" organizations. Learn to build a set of
measurements, and use the measures to manage toward
strategic achievement.
Role of the Effective Controller - 1
Day - Teach Controllers how to improve traditional processes and apply
new tools to their toolkit. Cost
of Poor Quality - 1
Day - How to identify, track, report and improve losses due to a lack of
quality. How
to Identify, Measure and Manage Intellectual Capital - 1
Day - What IC is, and why
it is important in the new economy; how to create a model for
understanding IC and what types of measurement can be developed. How
to Implement ISO 9000 - 1
Day - Background on ISO – what it is, why you need it, and how to
apply it. Eliminate
the Budget – it Constrains Creativity - 1
Day - Based on the work of CAM-I this program looks at what
organizations do that have replaced budgeting with strategic
management.
The
New ISO Standard 9000:2000 Practical Application in
Non-Manufacturing Organizations
- (2-day seminar) - 16 CPE credits
- An overview of the new ISO standard and how its’ process based
approach complements and supports management of public and private
sector services organizations.
Fees:
The 2 day seminars are $995 US or $1,195 CDN plus GST.
Prices are discounted for teams of 3 or more from the same
organization.
The 1 day seminars are $595 US or $895 CDN plus GST.
Prices are discounted for teams of 3 or more from the same
organization.
All of the workshops are offered as public sessions
selectively throughout the year and are always available In-House:
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