Today’s blog post is taken directly from our latest newsletter, normally our newsletters are specifically written for our clients and ACE user audience, but this latest newsletter was a bit more generic and is focused on Environmental / Carbon Accounting. This is a very topical and political subject and there seems to be passionate people […]
READ MOREOver the past few weeks I have posted a couple of blogs on my top three ‘must haves’ when looking at procuring activity based costing software. My top three were: the ability to report on not only the beginning and end of your model (the inputs and outputs), but all stages in-between; the ability to […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago I posted a blog on my top three ‘must haves’ when looking at procuring activity based costing software. My top three were: the ability to report on not only the beginning and end of your model (the inputs and outputs), but all stages in-between; the ability to track multiple cost […]
READ MOREI did some work for a client this month that I think was a little unusual in today’s world of technology, internet and the need to do things ‘now, now, now’. Like the majority of our clients, this one was looking at developing an activity based costing (ABC) model. But unlike most of our clients, […]
READ MOREIn the first issue of our Pilbara Group newsletter for 2011 (InterfACE), there is a great article outlining the use of string compare drivers in our ACE solution. While the newsletter article specifically looks at the use of location tags to automate the allocation of costs to nominated areas or regions in activity based costing […]
READ MOREToday’s post comes from our good friend at Arkonas, John Miller. With 40 years experience both in industry where he held the position of CFO for a publicly held New York Stock Exchange company and as a principal to industry for an international consulting firm, John combines the skills of a consultant with the mindset […]
READ MOREAs promised, posted below is the start of our discussion on research costing developed by Andrew Faulkner. We would like to start an open debate / discussion on this topic which seems to be of interest to all Universities in Australia at the moment, so please add your comments / suggestions below. Cheers, Lea SRE 2010 Transparent […]
READ MOREI was recently reminded, as we are doing our own financials, that dirty data is the bane of any Business Intelligence or Activity Based Costing implementation team. It seems that there is a wealth of data available but if it is not clean or validated it adds significantly to the overall implementation process. It has […]
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