Lea Patterson
How the university predictive model works
Animated Overview You can watch a quick two minute overview of the predictive model here: http://youtu.be/eWWQ0exP9-0 Conventional Budgeting A university is really an array of interacting…
Lea Patterson
Of course MOOCs are cheaper than traditional classrooms… aren’t they?
I’ve been reading a lot of articles about MOOCs and online courses versus good old fashioned classroom based learning. In a recent article this week in the Australian Financial Review, Brad Wheeler…
Michelle Brooke
Activity-Based Costing Software Top 3 ‘Must Haves’ – Part 3
Over 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…
Michelle Brooke
Activity-Based Costing Software Top 3 ‘Must Haves’ – Part 2
A 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…
Michelle Brooke
Activity-Based Costing Software Top 3 ‘Must Haves’ – Part 1
I 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…
Lea Patterson
Calculated Driver Paths for ABC models
In 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…
Lea Patterson
New Website, New Blog, New Brand, New Partner!
Well it’s been a busy time the last few months. We have finally moved to a single brand and have removed all our other websites / brands / logos. We have removed the old acesuite.com /…
Lea Patterson
What’s the benefit of defining a model’s scope before beginning a model build?
Defining a model’s scope before beginning to build it may be the difference between developing a useable, defendable and pertinent model that can answer multiple operational and management questions…
Lea Patterson
Assigning personnel in a cost model without staff surveys
Wow! I found out this morning that I can use my iPhone as a remote control for PowerPoint presentations….so I apologise in advance to any clients that I’m presenting to in the next few weeks…you will…
Lea Patterson
Activity-Based Costing
Today’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…