Eliminate waste in your accounting department by trimming the day-to-day fat that accumulates in financial accounting processes and become a much leaner, more efficient operation. Gain a practical, real-world understanding of the “value stream mapping” tool, and use it to efficiently establish and maintain a Lean accounting function. Learn how Lean thinking and related tools and techniques can streamline your financial, operational and managerial accounting operations. This course will illustrate how accounting functions can be aligned with Lean goals and Lean performance measures.   
  
• Eliminate waste from financial accounting processes  
• Streamline operational accounting and performance measurement  
• Improve managerial accounting policies and procedures  
• Make a successful transformation to a Lean accounting function  
• Focus on improving the value stream and customer value  

Controllers, managers, and others with responsibility for the accounting function within the organization

• Steps for improving financial accounting processes
• Methods of eliminating wasteful operational accounting transactions
• Alignment of management accounting with lean goals and performance measures
• Procedures for more efficient tracking and performance reporting
• Role of continuous improvement, empowerment, and learning
• Focus on value stream organization, customer value, and target costing