Activity-based costing: Is the current ‘as is’ process being followed? If not, what are the discrepancies?

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:

Is there any existing Activity-based costing governance structure?
What attendant changes will need to be made to ensure that the solution is successful?
Is there a documented and implemented monitoring plan?
Is the current ‘as is’ process being followed? If not, what are the discrepancies?
What is the right balance of time and resources between investigation, analysis, and discussion and dissemination?
Think about the people you identified for your Activity-based costing project and the project responsibilities you would assign to them. what kind of training do you think they would need to perform these responsibilities effectively?
Who sets the Activity-based costing standards?
Are there Activity-based costing problems defined?
The approach of traditional Activity-based costing works for detail complexity but is focused on a systematic approach rather than an understanding of the nature of systems themselves. what approach will permit us to deal with the kind of unpredictable emergent behaviors that dynamic complexity can introduce?
What training and capacity building actions are needed to implement proposed reforms?

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:

Requirements Management Plan: Controlling Activity-based costing project requirements involves monitoring the status of the Activity-based costing project requirements and managing changes to the requirements. Who is responsible for monitoring and tracking the Activity-based costing project requirements?
Team Directory: How and in what format should information be presented?
Requirements Management Plan: Is Requirements work dependent on any other specific Activity-based costing project or non-Activity-based costing project activities (e.g. funding, approvals, procurement)?
Duration Estimating Worksheet: For other activities, how much delay can be tolerated?
Cost Management Plan: Are procurement deliverables arriving on time and to specification?
Risk Register: Does the evidence highlight any areas to advance opportunities or foster good relations. If yes what steps will be taken?
Team Directory: Process Decisions: Do job conditions warrant additional actions to collect job information and document on-site activity?
Procurement Audit: Was the award criterion only the most economical advantageous tender?
Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Guiding question: Who shall you involve in the making of the stakeholder map?
Scope Management Plan: Are written status reports provided on a designated frequent basis?

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: