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  • In-house training- a three webinar series delivered by David Parmenter

    I have trained many inhouse teams in my methodologies.  The main uses have been: upskilling the finance teams (fast close, forecasting, reporting, winning work habits ) assisting inhouse teams running a winning KPI project (requires five sessions) I can also run a leadership programme / innovation programmes.

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  • In-house training – a five webinar series delivered by David Parmenter

    I have trained many inhouse teams in my methodologies.  The main uses have been: upskilling the finance teams (fast close, forecasting, reporting, winning work habits ) assisting inhouse teams running a winning KPI project I can also run a leadership programme /innovation programmes.

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  • A Review of Your Monthly, Weekly and Daily Finance Reporting

    Many finance teams do not have the time to design their finance reports to maximise readers’ awareness and ability to take action. Using the framework outlined in my best selling book “The Financial Controller and CFO’s Toolkit”  I can redesign your reports making them clear, concise and compliant to reporting best practice.

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  • How To Choose the Right KPIs for Your Business and avoid failure

    From my observations the failure rate for KPI and balance scorecard projects is off the scale.  There are a number of contributing factors that have led to this failure rate. Organizations, in both the private and public sectors, are being run by management who have not yet received any formal education on performance measurement. Unlike…

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  • 15 steps to a KPI project

    By David Parmenter After 30 years helping organizations ascertain their Critical Success Factors and associated KPIs, I have come up with 15 steps to start a KPI project. These steps are explained in detail in my best selling KPI book which can be accessed from leading book sellers. The most up to date reference work is in…

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  • 3 common confusions on what KPIs are

    By David Parmenter The 2018 MIT Sloan Management Review and Google’s cross-industry survey*  asked senior executives to explain how they and their organizations are using KPIs in the digital era. It is probably the largest survey on this topic with more than 3,200 senior executives providing feedback and supported by in-depth interviews with 18 selected executives and…

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  • Fast close and other winning practices (Delivered as 2*90 min webinars)

    Why is it that we spend months on an annual planning process that we know is flawed? Why is it we spend many days preparing a monthly report that is informing management well and truly “after the horse has bolted”? Why do we produce a 30+ page finance report for the senior management team? Why…

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  • The journey to a lean accounting function – the practices to adopt to make a difference (4* 90 minute webinars)

    Whilst most corporate accountants are aware of the revolution of lean and its positive impact on private, government and non profit sectors few have realised the profound impact it has on the accounting function. The pioneers of lean accounting have now blazed a pathway that all corporate accountants need to walk along. Lean accounting not only looks…

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  • 10 KPI graphs for the Board

    By David Parmenter In most organizations that have boards, there is a major conflict of interest over what information is appropriate for the board to receive. Because the board’s role is clearly one of governance and not of management, it is totally inappropriate to be providing the board with KPIs. To me, KPIs are the…

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  • 4 tasks to ascertaining your organisation’s critical success factors

    By David Parmenter To help organisations around the world find their critical success factors (CSFs), I have developed a four-task process. Task 1: Wording the success factors and the external outcomes The KPI team needs to review the strategic documents in their organization covering the past 10 years, then extract and develop success factors from these…

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