Thought Leadership 1. Knowing Where You Make, Break and Lose Out on Profit
Across any business, cost management and the ability to maximise your profits are ever-present responsibilities in delivering on strategic objectives. The best interests of any organisation are in identifying the key drivers of profitability and focusing on areas where money is being wrongly applied or lost. More... 2. Shared Services
"Innovative techniques to maximise benefits". Agility- SAS Breakfast Seminar, Canberra 2007. More... 3. Customer, Product & Channel Profitability
"To outperform your competition, you need to understand which customers, products and channels drive profits, and how each contributes to your costs". Agility- SAS Breakfast Seminar, Melbourne 2007. More... 4. Customer, Product & Channel Profitability
"To outperform your competition, you need to understand which customers, products and channels drive profits, and how each contributes to your costs". Agility- SAS Breakfast Seminar, Sydney 2007. More...
5. Strategy vs Execution
"Learn how successful Australian organisations are getting the balance right to maximise results". Agility- SAS Breakfast Seminar, Brisbane 2007. More...
6. Centreing on Excellence 2005
This paper was presented to the CPA's Congress on 16th March 2005.
The key objectives were to examine:
- The pitfalls of traditional budgeting
- Where budgeting fits in the performance management framework
- Typical elements in planning, forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes
- Using a "Beyond Budgeting" approach. More...
7. The ABC of CPA October 2004
This was a paper presented to the CPA's Congress on 19th October 2004 in conjunction with the Commonwealth Bank. The key objective was to help organisations understand their customer base to ensure they are targeting the most profitable market. More...
8. Beyond your ABC
This was a workshop to the CPA's NSW 'Beyond Excellence' conference on 11th May 2004. The key idea was to explore costing approaches including ABC using practical examples. More...
9. ABM Seminar Improve decision making 2004
This was a web seminar presented on the Bettermanagement.com site on 28th April 2004 for the Asia Pacific Region. The learning objectives were to;
- Identify the key elements of a good costing system
- Understand the limitations and advantages of various costing systems, e.g., standard costing, job costing, project costing, and activity based costing.
- Undertand the trends in cost managment and performance measurement. More... 10. NSW Country Congress 2004 Costing Alternatives
This was a workshop presented to the CPA's NSW Country Congress on 16th April 2004. The key idea was to explore costing approaches including ABC using practical examples. More... 11. NSW Country Congress 2004 Strategic Planning and KPI’s
This was a workshop presented to the CPA's NSW Country Congress on the 16th April 2004. The key idea was to identify the 'things that matter' ie. how to develop an 'unblanced' scorecard so as to report on a few selected KPI's that will drive strategy. More...
12. Activity Based Management
Moving from Cost Recording to Cost Management Phil Ruthven of IBIS Research generated disbelief in the late 1980's when he forecast that 4 out of 5 of the top 1000 companies in Australia would not exist by the turn of the century. His prediction quickly gained momentum with the demise of many entrepreneurial high flyers, but there have been any number of underlying forces at work for at least the last decade which are quietly but dramatically transforming the corporate landscape right across the country. More...
13. Benchmarking: An Overview
The Theme for the Nineties Today's business world is so competitive and demanding that no company can afford to be complacent about any aspect of its business. Because of global competition, companies must consider not only how they compare with local competitors, but with companies on the other side of the world. They must strive to be the best, or else risk losing their markets to a competitor who is better. More...
14. The Balanced Scorecard
At the beginning of the 20th century, a US Director of Patents sublimely boasted that all the important inventions of mankind had been discovered and that any invention to follow would simply be a variation of the past! In similar vein, the traditional inward looking accountant would probably suggest that every accounting system or tool, which helps us to measure corporate performance, was invented before 1950. More...
15. Costing for Services - CPA Centering on Excellence
This is a joint presentation of Commonwealth Bank and Agility Consulting. It examines: definition of services; costing approaches; examples of costing principles; and benefits of cost management strategies. More...
16. GST and Activity Based Costing Presentation at ABC Technologies' Conference 2000
Activity Based Costing has earned a justifiable reputation as a rigorous management tool for measuring product and customer profitability, and as an aid in improving business processes. A surprising by-product of ABC for one of Agility's clients was a cost-effective tool for identifying its monthly GST expense obligations. Then again, not so surprising when the ABC methodology easily satisfies the GST legislative framework by establishing the linkages between cost inputs (i.e. ledger costs) and cost outputs (i.e. products). More...
17. ABC Design & Implementation Presentation at ABC Technologies' Conference 2001
This presentation examines some practical issues about building ABC solutions such as: implementation approaches; model design issues; and building sustainability. More...
18. ABC at Northern Territory University Presentation at ABC Technologies' Conference 2002 A Case Study on NTU's initial ABC implementation and also covers the results and insights derived, the implementation approach and the benefits obtained. More... 19. Higher Ed Systems BizInteract 2002 Strategic Cost Management in Higher Education
Discusses the challenges for Higher Education Institutions and the costing methodologies that can be used to address the specific information needs in these institutions. More... |
