Links include:

I.   Companies we discuss in class

II.  Activity Based Costing/Activity Based Management (ABC/ABM)

III. Cost and Schedule Management from a government perspective

IV. Balanced Scorecard

V.  Performance Metrics

VI. Other accounting resources

I.   Companies we will likely discuss in class include:

Alaska Airlines  (check out their "web fares."  How do these bargain prices increase throughput?!)

Apple Computer (when will the 17" iMac be announced?)

Analog Devices (check out "ADI quality systems")

Binney & Smith (check out "inside crayola" and then "crayola history")

Floramor (The fresh flower supplier that used ABC to sell its customers on its improved 'wet-pack' shipping process.  Overall, a pretty weak web site but one can look at the pictures in the 'gallery' and see the wet packs under construction -- see http://www.floramor.com/Floramor%20facilities%20pictures.htm and scroll toward the bottom of the page.)

Iomega (check out the sort of new "clik" -- storage for handheld devices)

John Deere (check out stylish "Deere Gear" at the John Deere Mall)

 

II.  ABC/ABM links include:

The CAM-I home page is at http://www.cam-i.com/cami/.

Sites for ABC/ABM software/consulting firms include:

ABC Technologies in Portland, OR produces the 'EasyABC' package: http://www.abctech.com/

Armstrong-Laing in Atlanta produces an ABM package: http://www.armstronglaing.com/homd.htm

ICMS - http://www.icms.net/

Mevatec - http://www.rpm-abm.com/index.html.  Check out the links.

 

III. Cost and Schedule Management from a government      perspective

The site http://www.acq.osd.mil/pm/ links you to some information on Cost and Schedule management from a Government perspective.  "Earned Value" is the tool Boeing Defense Group uses to manage performance on contracts.  [Note this link was not working the last time I checked.]

IV. The Balanced Scorecard

The new site http://www.balancedscorecard.org purports to be an an independent, nonprofit source of information about applications of the Balanced Scorecard approach to management in government.

Gentia Software creates a product that supposedly automates the application the balanced scorecard in organizations.  Their pitch:

The Renaissance Balanced Scorecard provides a packaged solution for enterprise-wide automation and deployment of the Balanced Scorecard, enabling organizations to align strategy, and measure and manage their operations at all levels of the enterprise.

See http://www.gentia.com/default.htm for product descriptions.

V.  Performance metrics:

Stern Stewart (registered owner of EVA^®)

Other shareholder value consultants include CPS and Marakon Associates.  Marakon was co-founded by Professor Bill Alberts who was the first competitive economics instructor in the UW EMBA program.  Bill  set a high standard for others that followed.  An article about Marakon appeared in the 9/28/98 issue of Fortune. 

VI. Other accounting links:

The International Federation of Accountants (ifac) has a website that includes many publications on assorted topics of relevance to managerial accounting.  See http://ifac.org/StandardsAndGuidance/FMAC.html.

Not had enough?  Rutger's has compiled a huge array of other accounting-related links at http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/ including the Big Six Accounting Firms, the FASB, SEC, etc., etc.