Performance management

• In focus: Why your dessert may cost more

  Vanilla is a popular flavoring in many foods — especially desserts. But recent supply chain problems have been anything but sweet.

• Bringing value to healthcare using cost accounting

  Professionals at the UK’s National Health Service are using principles that date back to cost accounting’s roots as they employ a data-centric approach to improving patient care and efficiency in treatment.

• A tool to strengthen the supply chain

  This free toolkit helps companies employ effective strategies to promote ethical practices within their supply chain.

• Ask the expert: Business expenses

  Since joining in 2004, Dafydd Llewellyn has played a key role in developing the UK business — helping growing companies to transform their manual expense, travel, and invoice processes.

• Smoothing capital expenditure in Excel

  This spreadsheet technique accommodates cyclical, multiyear capital spending, allowing for an accurate year-to-year calculation of cash flows.

• Quiz: Do you know how to create long-term value?

  Take this quiz to find out how much you know about how the CGMA Business Model Framework helps boards, senior executives, and support staff gain an understanding of their organisation’s business model at a time of change.

• Adding value to reverse logistics

  Management accountants have an important cost-reduction role in the retail returns process.

• Using technology to improve forecasting

  This excerpt from the CGMA report 'Re-inventing Finance for a Digital World' highlights how a machine-learning system delivered tremendous forecasting efficiencies for one company.

• Improving FP&A accuracy

  A growing range of techniques can lead to better business planning.

• Enabling finance as a business partner

  The growing sophistication of IT systems has freed finance resources to be redeployed away from traditional accounting to a broader management support contribution.

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