A Look at Make/Buy Analysis and How Not to Do It
Today, I would like delve into an area that typically involves cross-functional analysis within an organization. In other words, it is an area that allows us, as accountants, to provide outsized value...
View ArticleThe “Better” Way of Looking at Make/Buy Decisions
In the last post, we took a look at what I call the absolute “wrong way” to do a make/buy decision for a part, or even a service for that matter. If you remember, the root of the problem for the last...
View ArticleUsing a Bird’s Eye View to Drill Into a Make/Buy Decision
In our two previous posts, we discussed an, um, arcane way of looking at make/buy analysis and then improved on it a bit. While both were probably not unfamiliar to you, hopefully it is a bit clearer...
View ArticleClean Things Up and Make Your P&L Easier to Use
In recent posts, I showed we could evolve a common analysis exercise that accountants are typically called upon to do, improve it a bit, and then improve it in a significant way. We took the make/buy...
View ArticleWork Orders: The Biggest Myth in Your Decision Making Process
The work order. One of the staples of manufacturing companies around the world. For “direct” employees, it is a fact of life. You work, you keep track of your hours. It is how it is done in the...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Get Off the Island
Many organizations are organized in a silo manner. Sales has its own silo. Product development has ts own silo. So, it goes without saying that finance typically has its own silo. However, in many...
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