Target costing, a concept used by many successful Japanese automotive, electronic and other businesses is a fundamentally different way to look at the relationship of prices and costs. this arcle will outline target costing, it's benefits, process and tools to help implement this method in your organization. A very helpful article for any company looking to reduce costs.

This article from the Institute of Management Accountants is a great refresher and eye opener on the importance of the value chain in competitive advantage and cost reduction. It is a comprehensive, in depth article full of real world examples.

With ABM; businesses can make dramatic improvements in measuring product and process costs as well as customer profitability. This article covers Activity Based Management, provides a refresher on what it is, why it is applicable to business and provides a coparison along with examples to traditional product costing.

Businesses are well aware that not all customers are equally profitable. This article from the Journal of Accountancy demonstrates five reoccurring steps in the customer value management cycle to help you determine which customers are most valuable to your organization.

Advanced Management Accounting [MA2] is the final of two mandatory courses in the management accounting stream in the CGA program of professional studies. It introduces the important and increasing role of management accountants in assisting managers to make decisions. It also deals with some advanced topics related to decision framing, contemporary approaches, and performance evaluation, and integrates agency theory and ethical considerations in management accounting.

Explore different techniques to add colour to your reports, from vibrant professional looking diagrams, to workflow charts and elaborate equations; Excel can be used to create these and more. This course is loaded with techniques to help you engage your reader so that you can do more than just present numbers; you can deliver the message.

To make Excel truly sing, you need to understand how to make it react dynamically to changes in scenarios. Learn the purpose of logic and reference functions and how to use them. Take a deep dive into lookup functions including VLOOKUP(), and become a master of Excel functions.

Explore the mathematical, statistical, and financial functions that apply to accountancy and financial management. Starting with calculation of basic statistics, through forecasting and generating a Net Present Value schedule, this course works through key functions that every accountant needs to know.

The very nature of a spreadsheet is built around tables and tabular data, and many of Excel’s tools are designed specifically to work with tabular data. Excel guru, Ken Puls, will show you everything you need to know about creating solid data tables in Excel. It is essential knowledge that will open up Excel’s most powerful features, and benefit you in your daily work.

Excel guru Ken Puls reviews the basics of Excel formula and function libraries and opens up a whole new world of possibilities for your spreadsheets. Take Excel from a static sheet of paper to a dynamic calculator. Using clear and relevant examples, the course progresses through more complex scenarios, illustrating how to build an inventory analysis, income forecast, cash flow, and balance sheet.