Just-in-Time Accounting

Are you serious about finding ways to improve your accounting department? Would you like to be able to speed up the accounting process, eliminate redundancy and waste, increase the accuracy of your information, and focus on activities that increase profits' Just-in-Time Accounting shows you how! With this book, you'll learn how to eliminate inefficiencies, redundancies, and waste and implement high-speed, low-cost quality systems that can be adapted to any company's particular needs.

Steven Bragg begins by showing you how to identify cluttered, poorly documented, or archaic systems that require excessive document handling and wait times. He then describes methods and techniques for expediting processes at various steps and demonstrates how to:

• Apply new technologies to reduce labor costs for transaction processing
  
• Automate control points and eliminate those that are redundant
  
• Remove steps from the transaction that can be handled in advance
  
• Conduct cost/benefit analyses and assess the impact of process changes
  
• Compare the performance of new and old systems
  
• Reduce errors while speeding up routine procedures
  
• Generate the reports required to control the new systems
  
• Troubleshoot and correct implementation problems