Cost Accounting, R.I.P.: Cost Accounting Is Opinion, Cash Flow Is Fact 2024
Overview
Organizations often focus on cost accounting data but don’t look at all the factors that influence that data. As a result, vast sums are spent to allocate costs that have nothing to do with cash. Instead, start with value, determine price, and then justify costs that can incur profits. Since you can calculate different costs using the same data, it’s evident that costs do not represent cash. Cost accounting confuses metrics with measurements. Cost accounting is a bad practice because you create and force math and relationships that do not exist. By doing this, you lose touch with your operations. You make meaningless numbers that people consider as gospel when, in reality, they are nothing but opinions. A company needs to start with value and then determine price, which justifies the costs that can be profitably incurred to produce a good or service. It seems obvious to constrain a company with a final price before you incur any costs, yet this practice has yet to be widely followed despite its proven successes. Costs are undoubtedly essential, but the crucial distinction is when they are viewed and what measures to use.
Highlights
- Modeling cash flow and capacity
- Adaptive Capacity Model
- Segall's Law
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Accounting and financial professionals.
Objectives
- Identify why modeling cash flow and capacity is superior to cost accounting
- Recognize the Adaptive Capacity Model
- Determine the difference between metrics and measurements
- Recognize Segall's Law: A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is never quite sure
Preparation
None
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor. Login instructions will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Login instructions will be emailed directly to you by California Education Foundation (CalCPA).
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Ronald Baker, VeraSage Institute
Ronald J. Baker started his CPA career in 1984 with KPMG’s Private Business Advisory Services in San Francisco. Today, he is the founder of VeraSage Institute—the leading think tank dedicated to educating professionals internationally—and a radio talk-show host on the www.VoiceAmerica.com show: The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy. As a frequent speaker, writer, and educator, his work takes him around the world. He has been an instructor with the California CPA Education Foundation since 1995 and has authored fifteen courses for them, including: You Are What You Charge For: Success in Today’s Emerging Experience Economy (with Daniel Morris); Alternatives to the Federal Income Tax; Trashing the Timesheet: A Declaration of Independence; Everyday Economics; Everyday Ethics: Doing Well by Doing Good; The Best Business Books You Should Read; Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value; Measure What Matters to Customers; and Innovating Your Business Model. Ron has toured the world, spreading his value-pricing message to over 120,000 professionals.
Non-Member Price $209.00
Member Price $159.00