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 organisations that not only provide services to staff and / or students but also receive services from other areas of the university. Let’s say, for example, a faculty requests an […]
READ MOREI’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, CIO of the 110,000-student Indiana University was discussing the four models of online delivery: the “flipped classroom” where course content is available online but […]
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 MOREWell 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 / aceondemand.com websites as well as abmtech.com.au – we are officially trading as Pilbara Group internationally, although our Australian company […]
READ MOREDefining 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, and that of a model that may struggle to be relevant and robust 12 months down the track. What does a scoping study involve? A scoping […]
READ MOREWow! 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 no doubt be my guinea pigs 🙂 Talking about clients, many of Pilbara Group’s university clients have asked the […]
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 […]
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