The Financial Controller and Cfo's Toolkit: Lean Practices to Transform Your Finance Team Hardcover - 2016

From the rear cover

While some finance teams are most definitely "future ready," many are undertaking tasks that are antiquated and anti-lean. Now is the time to change. Author and performance management leader David Parmenter has designed this toolkit to be a practical guide for corporate accountants, from CFOs to the management accountant. This book provides over 100 lean practice solutions, gathered by the author, from lean finance teams including:

• The key steps to selling and leading change effectively
• Rapid month-end results--inside three working days
• Templates for lean, one-page daily, weekly, and monthly reporting
• Agile methodologies for instant improved teamwork (Scrum, Kanban, Post-it Re-engineering, Kaizen)
• Ways to reduce accounts payable volume by 60%
• The seven 21^st century technologies that will radically improve the finance team's productivity
• Rapid annual accounts and annual plans
• Implementing quarterly rolling forecasting
• Getting your KPIs to work
• How to attract and recruit talent
• Practical insights from the paradigm shifters (Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, Jack Welch, John Kotter, Jeremy Hope)

The companion PDF toolkit is filled with templates and checklists to kick-start the implementation process.

The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit will assist corporate accountants to radically transform their contribution. By embracing lean best practices, the reader will enhance their job satisfaction and profile, and leave a lasting legacy.