Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 15 · Cost Accounting Structures
Running the costing design workshop
Lesson 151 of 188 · 3 min
Who is in the room. The controller or financial controller — non-negotiable. A cost accountant, if one exists. The operations lead. And somebody who knows the chart of accounts. This course has said "get the controller in the room" three times already; this is the meeting it was building toward. If the controller cannot attend, you move the meeting. What to bring: the current cost reports the business actually uses. The chart of accounts. And the list of inventory organizations. Open with their reports, not with the system. "Show me every cost report you produce today, and every one you wish you produced." The structure falls out of the reporting requirement — exactly as it does for a chart of accounts, and exactly as the item class hierarchy fell out of what data you hold rather than how products are grouped. The question sequence. One. What cost method do you…
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In this module: Module 15 · Cost Accounting Structures
- 1What we are building
- 2The warning nobody readsFree preview
- 3The costing object model
- 4Choosing a cost method
- 5Cost organization design
- 6Running the costing design workshop
- 7Cost organizations and cost books
- 8Cost organization relationships
- 9Cost elements and components
- 10Cost component mappings
- 11Valuation structures and units
- 12Cost profiles
- 13Expense pools and accounting
- 14Quick setup for cost accounting
- 15What breaks
- 16Lab briefing: the Halden costing design
- 17Lab solution walkthrough