Professional statisticians typically have powerful software at their disposal to perform advanced analyses and create slick graphs. But many professionals in the quality field don't enjoy that luxury due to a limited budget. Fortunately, many occasional data analysts already own versatile software capable of providing most basic quality analyses — Microsoft Excel.

In his blog, Mike Gilliland provides four reasons that forecasts are wrong. This may help us better understand the nature and limitations of forecasts.

This article, from Concept Marketing Group, provides an overview of seven pricing strategies. A higher or lower price can dramatically change both gross margins and sales volume. This indirectly affects other expenses by reducing storage costs, for example, or creating opportunities for volume discounts with suppliers.

This article, on the Accounting Tools website, explains that Economic Value Added shows the incremental rate of return in excess of a firm’s total cost of capital. It is extremely important to break down the drivers of the measurement in order to determine what parts of a company are keeping the measure from reaching its maximum potential.

It took just a short time for Activity-Based Costing (ABC) to be recognized as an innovative and potentially valuable costing methodology; yet it took another 20 years to reach its full potential. This article — by Peter B. B. Turney, PhD, of Cost Technology, Inc. — examines the evolution of ABC.

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This webcast will cover various methods of measuring costs and assigning them back to various products, customers, or distribution channels in order to calculate profitability. Once you can calculate profitability, you can take steps to improve it. Most importantly, you can highlight your accomplishments effectively to your bosses and senior non-financial management, which will ultimately help your career progress.

Too often, financial professionals are so occupied with the daily realities of reporting results that they don’t take the time to analyze them and improve them. This webcast will teach you how to identify the drivers of costs and profitability and determine where efforts should be focused in order to improve overall profitability for the organization.

This webcast covers the key facets of a financial analyst's role within an accounting department and will help analysts further their career by providing meaningful information to those around them. It is particularly helpful to those whose role it is to provide financial analysis, but who have never received clear direction on what financial analysis really means.

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