Lean Accounting: Deeper Dive – Erie

Date: October 17, 2019
Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Cost: $750
CPE: 8 Credits
Location: NWIRC Learning Center
8425 Peach Street
Erie, PA 16509

This class is equivalent to 8 CPE credits. For companies who have embarked on applying lean thinking and practices, they may not have thought about the role of management reporting information and the accounting team in supporting this transformation.

Take a deeper look at “Accounting for Lean” (changing your financial statements to reflect your lean efforts and can be understood by non-financial personnel) and how to implement it.

This class will combine lecture, dialogue and simulation.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand where standard cost can be used and where and why it should be eliminated.
• Explore the difference between traditional financial statements and financial statements by product line, value stream, etc.
• Learn lean alternatives for cost accounting.

Who should attend: CEO’s, CFO’s, controllers, accounting team members, audit managers and lean champions.

Presenter: Jean Cunningham, as CFO of two manufacturing companies and consultant to lean organizations, has lived this change and a found a new, improved role for accounting to provide better value information to the organization as well as reduced the effort required for accounting operations.

Email mreichard@nwirc.org with any questions. Please register by Friday, October 11, 2019. Registration before 9/13 for reduced tuition of $650. Registrations after 9/13 will be $750.