We often hear questions like: Are the shared service chargebacks to my business units’ cost centers accurate and transparent? Will I save any money by using a centralized shared service? Why should I consider a centralized shared service? These are all good questions. To answer them, you need to understand
Tag: activity based management
I want to use SAS’ recent announcement of our Cost and Profitability Management solution as an opportunity to highlight an often overlooked but valuable application of activity-based costing: business process reengineering. But first, just a brief description of Cost and Profitability Management’s new breakthrough capability: In-memory model calculation. SAS’ decision
Take a quick look at the two graphs below. Which one appears to be the LEAST complex construction? You might initially suppose it’s the bottom one, nothing but bar graphs, and maybe just one bar graph, the tallest one on the
With the exception of the occasional James Bond movie that proves the rule, we don’t as a matter of course combine our modes of transportation into one all-purpose vehicle, and we even tend to park our cars, boats and planes in separate facilities. But when it comes to financial management,
In honor of the United Nations World Statistics Day (October 20, 2010), let’s not leave finance out of the party. In fact, let’s continue with our focus from last time on the analytical and decision support payback afforded by Activity-based costing, perhaps the most underappreciated finance tool for adding value