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Lean Decision Making: Material Cost Analysis

Posted on March 24th, 2017 by Nick Katko | No Comments

In the world of Lean Accounting, you will hear that a value stream income statement needs to show “actual material cost”, and is typically defined as actual material purchased. This confuses accounting professionals because it appears to be in conflict with the matching principle of accounting. So here is my attempt to clear up this

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Lean Decision Making Framework: General Guidelines

Posted on March 16th, 2017 by Nick Katko | No Comments

In this blog, I’d like to explain 3 general guidelines accounting should follow for creating an effective lean decision framework for your lean manufacturing company. #1- Financial Impact on Value Stream Profitability The general rule for lean decision making is to understand the financial impact of any decision is based on the impact on total

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      Nick Katko is one of the early pioneers of Lean Accounting. As a CFO in the 1990’s Nick implemented a complete Lean Accounting System in conjunction with his company’s lean transformation.

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      Nick has leveraged this experience along with his strong accounting background to assist companies resolve the real-world issues they face when implementing lean accounting. He facilitated Lean Accounting implementations with a wide range of companies, from multi-national companies such as Boeing, Parker-Hannifin, Novartis and Nestle to privately held family businesses. Nick’s industry experience includes applying lean accounting in manufacturing, engineering, food processing, process manufacturing, publishing, education and health care.

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