Activity-based costing: If no one would ever find out about your accomplishments, how would you lead differently?

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Activity-based costing Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Activity-based costing related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

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The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Activity-based costing specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with…

The latest quick edition of the Activity-based costing Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals…

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Activity-based costing improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the standard requirements:

Think of your Activity-based costing project. what are the main functions?
Is there any reason to believe the opposite of my current belief?
What are the types and number of measures to use?
If no one would ever find out about your accomplishments, how would you lead differently?
Who is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources (time, people and money) are allocated to Activity-based costing?
Is Activity-based costing currently on schedule according to the plan?
How are you going to measure success?
Do your employees have the opportunity to do what they do best everyday?
What are the business goals Activity-based costing is aiming to achieve?
Is the suppliers process defined and controlled?

Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Activity-based costing book in PDF containing requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in…

Your Activity-based costing self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Activity-based costing Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Activity-based costing areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Activity-based costing Self-Assessment
Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Activity-based costing projects with the 62 implementation resources:

62 step-by-step Activity-based costing Project Management Form Templates covering over 6000 Activity-based costing project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

Team Member Performance Assessment: Where can team members go for more detailed information on performance measurement and assessment?
Initiating Process Group: Are the changes in your Activity-based costing project being formally requested, analyzed, and approved by the appropriate decision makers?
Decision Log: Is your opponent open to a non-traditional workflow, or will it likely challenge anything you do?
Change Log: Is the submitted change a new change or a modification of a previously approved change?
Lessons Learned: For the next Activity-based costing project, how could you improve on the way Activity-based costing project was conducted?
Quality Management Plan: How does your organization measure customer satisfaction/dissatisfaction?
Initiating Process Group: For technology Activity-based costing projects only: Are all production support stakeholders (Business unit, technical support, & user) prepared for implementation with appropriate contingency plans?
Human Resource Management Plan: Are the right people being attracted and retained to meet the future challenges?
Change Request: What should be regulated in a change control operating instruction?
Procurement Audit: Was invitation to tender to each specific contract issued after the evaluation of the indicative tenders was completed?

Step-by-step and complete Activity-based costing Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

1.1 Activity-based costing project Charter
1.2 Stakeholder Register
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

2.1 Activity-based costing project Management Plan
2.2 Scope Management Plan
2.3 Requirements Management Plan
2.4 Requirements Documentation
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
2.6 Activity-based costing project Scope Statement
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
2.9 WBS Dictionary
2.10 Schedule Management Plan
2.11 Activity List
2.12 Activity Attributes
2.13 Milestone List
2.14 Network Diagram
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
2.19 Activity-based costing project Schedule
2.20 Cost Management Plan
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
2.23 Cost Baseline
2.24 Quality Management Plan
2.25 Quality Metrics
2.26 Process Improvement Plan
2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
2.30 Communications Management Plan
2.31 Risk Management Plan
2.32 Risk Register
2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
2.35 Risk Data Sheet
2.36 Procurement Management Plan
2.37 Source Selection Criteria
2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
2.39 Change Management Plan

3.0 Executing Process Group:

3.1 Team Member Status Report
3.2 Change Request
3.3 Change Log
3.4 Decision Log
3.5 Quality Audit
3.6 Team Directory
3.7 Team Operating Agreement
3.8 Team Performance Assessment
3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
3.10 Issue Log

4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

4.1 Activity-based costing project Performance Report
4.2 Variance Analysis
4.3 Earned Value Status
4.4 Risk Audit
4.5 Contractor Status Report
4.6 Formal Acceptance

5.0 Closing Process Group:

5.1 Procurement Audit
5.2 Contract Close-Out
5.3 Activity-based costing project or Phase Close-Out
5.4 Lessons Learned

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Activity-based costing project with this in-depth Activity-based costing Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Diagnose Activity-based costing projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
Integrate recent advances in Activity-based costing and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, ‘What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?’

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Activity-based costing investments work better.

This Activity-based costing All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person: