New Paths to Dramatically Improve Your Planning and Control Processes

Steve Player

Written for the Journal of Accountancy, the paper covers typical problems with budgeting, principals of Beyond Budgeting processes, principals for front-line action, common keys to success, and revolutionary approach to change

New Paths to Dramatically Improve Your Planning and Control Processes

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Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting for Superior Business Execution

Steve Player – Subject Matter Expert

Final report of a Consortium Benchmarking Study conducted by the APQC in conjunction with Beyond Budgeting and published in 2006. Best practice partners were Bank of America, Emerson Electric Company, Wachovia, and Nestle Purina PetCare

APQC Best Practice Final Report Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting for Superior Business Execution

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Integrated Best Practices. Planning, Budgeting, and Performance Management

John A. Miller

17 page power point presentation that includes an Overview and Background (definitions, integrated best practice technology, and methods and sources), Application and Use in Government, Steps to Implement, Key Success Factors, and Summary

Integrating Best Practices. Planning, Budgeting and Performance Management

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Budgeting for Results 2008. Navigating the Budgeting Process

John A. Miller

47 slide power point presentation that includes aligning budgeting to strategy, key realities and drivers of the budget process, budget formulation: estimating and forecasting budget requirements, budget justification: building am effective case for new initiative, and budget execution: tracking, monitoring, and modifying

Budgeting for Results 2008. Course 2 March 19

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Enhancing Value & Profits Though Effective Planning & Budgeting

Alan Stratton

This 17 slide power point presentation was developed by the CAM-I Planning & Budgeting Interest Group. Material covers the budget process, characteristics of planning and budgeting, and an overview of the CAM-I ABPB Closed-Loop Model

Enhancing Value and Profits Through Effective Planning and Budgeting

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Enterprise Master Plan: Next-Generation Planning With Activity-Based Costing

John A Miller, Alan Dybvig and Jeff Karrenbauer

Published in June 2014 by the Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. This article advocates relaxing the assumption of a fixed sales forecast to solve for the optimum level of sales and marketing spend that will provide the maximum profit and return on investment.

Enterprise Master Plan. Next Generation Planning With Activity based Costing

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How Much Profit is Your Current Plan Leaving on the Table?

John A Miller and Alan Dyvig

This 80 page white paper is a more detailed and comprehensive review of an Enterprise Master Plan (EMP) as described in the article above. The paper features a case study and example of an EMP by simultaneously optimizing a forecast for maximum profit and optimizing the supply chain to guarantee it can make and fulfill the new forecast sustainably. For a copy of the White Paper please contact John Miller

Optimized Planning white paper