Business finance trainer and lean consultant specialising in reporting and decision making.

Scotland UK
Joined June 2011
Two Minute Expert – Quick Response Manufacturing: lnkd.in/-TAdJ4
A Christmas Carol (The Accountants Version) - Follow the link for a gently amusing (I hope) and salutary Christmas tale ideas2action.co.uk/blog/2009…
"Business planning is still rooted in an annual cycle of targets and budget setting that is indistinguishable from ... Soviet Russia"
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The Tension Between Financial Accounting and Management Accounting - ideas2action.co.uk/blog/2010…
Review of "The Deming Dimension" by Henry Neave - lnkd.in/h-tF6Z
Value propositions: 11 avenues for potential #innovation awe.sm/5RlGA
"There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system...Distort the figures" B. Joiner #Deming #accounting
If at first you don't succ... oh I give in!
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“School Wars”: new book about educ in the UK & its “strange marriage of privatisation & hyper-accountability”: ow.ly/7EvgA
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Are Rewards and Incentives Lean ?. Insights from Alfie Kohn's book "Punished by Rewards" - ideas2action.co.uk/blog/2011…
Davis Balestracci on how to treat special cause variation - qualitydigest.com/magazine/2…
New guide to help search ur Scottish roots just launched today! @rosannecash, thought you might like? visit.sc/ufCUq5 #standrewsday
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The Tension Between Financial Accounting and Management Accounting - ideas2action.co.uk/blog/2010…
Looking at runs of data points below or above the median in a control chart - qualitydigest.com/magazine/2…
An introduction to improving finance processes in only six slides: -http://play.goldmail.com/6ryhx6msayr3
Beware of performance measures stated in percentages - they can hide a lot - qualitydigest.com/june08/dep…
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Hawkshead Christmas Fair takes place this weekend, with seasonal entertainment, food and craft stalls bit.ly/vWyyag
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little shoddier and sell a little cheaper", John Ruskin