Accounting Best Practices with Steve Bragg

Discussions about accounting management, best practices, controls, throughput accounting, and GAAP for the accountant, controller, or CFO.

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Episodes

ABP #61 - Business Valuation

Denise Curd discusses business valuation and SFAS 141R

Feb 11, 2008•11 min

ABP #60 - Profit Recovery: Vendor Relationship Auditing

How to pursue recoveries from suppliers

Jan 27, 2008•11 min

ABP #59 - Lean Accounting

Dick Crandall explains lean accounting, and where it can be used

Jan 27, 2008•11 min

ABP #58 - Investor Relations: Forward-Looking Statements

How to use safe harbor clauses when making forward-looking statements

Jan 21, 2008•8 min

ABP #57 - Target Costing

How target costing can improve your product margins

Jan 13, 2008•9 min

ABP #56 - Inventory Record Accuracy

How to create a highly accurate inventory record keeping system

Dec 30, 2007•11 min

ABP #55 - Targeted Collections

Steve discusses how to allocate work to maximize collections.

Dec 15, 2007•11 min

ABP #54 - Payroll Cycles

Steve discusses how to select the best payroll cycle.

Dec 01, 2007•5 min

ABP #53 - Best Practices Problem Avoidance

Steve discusses a variety of accounting best practices implementation issues, and how to avoid them.

Nov 18, 2007•10 min

ABP #52 - Profit Recovery: Internal Auditing

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about using the internal audit staff for profit recovery purposes.

Nov 03, 2007•9 min

ABP #51 - Accounting Technology: Data Analysis Software

Steve interviews Carolyn Newman, president of Audimation Services, Inc., about IDEA data analysis software.

Oct 20, 2007•10 min

ABP #50 - Standards: Convergence

Steve discusses accounting standards convergence with international accounting standards expert Barry Epstein.

Oct 06, 2007•9 min

ABP #49 - Standards: Fair Value

Steve interviews Ralph Nach about FASB Statements 157 and 159, which cover fair value measurements and the fair value option.

Sep 23, 2007•10 min

ABP #48 - Profit Recovery: Overview

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about the mechanics of the profit recovery process.

Sep 09, 2007•10 min

ABP #47 - Throughput Accounting, Part 5 (Controls)

Steve discusses the types of controls to use for throughput accounting.

Sep 02, 2007•8 min

ABP #46 - Throughput Accounting, Part 4 (Financial Analysis)

Steve discusses the implications of using throughput concepts on a series of financial analysis scenarios.

Aug 19, 2007•9 min

ABP #45 - Throughput Accounting, Part 3 (Capital Budgeting)

Steve describes how throughput accounting concepts alter the capital budgeting process.

Aug 05, 2007•9 min

ABP #44 - Throughput Accounting, Part 2 (Bottleneck Management)

Steve discusses how to manage a bottleneck operation in order to increase the level of throughput achieved.

Jul 21, 2007•9 min

ABP #43 - Throughput Accounting, Part 1 (Basics)

Steve discusses the drum-buffer-rope aspects of constraint management, as well as the sprint capacity and throughput concepts.

Jul 04, 2007•10 min

ABP #42 - Accounting Technology, Part 5 (PDF Invoices)

Steve discusses how to create PDF versions of customer invoices, and how this can reduce collection problems.

Jun 23, 2007•7 min

ABP #41 - Accounting Technology, Part 4 (Remote Bank Deposits)

Steve discusses how to use a check scanner to send electronic check payments to the bank.

Jun 08, 2007•7 min

ABP #40 - Accounting Technology, Part 3 (Biometric Time Clocks)

Steve discusses time clocks that incorporate fingerprint scanners and hand shape readers, and in what situations they are most useful.

May 28, 2007•6 min

ABP #39 - Accounting Technology, Part 2 (Timekeeping by Telephone)

Steve interviews Mark Nickson, President of Telliris, about timekeeping by telephone.

May 12, 2007•17 min

ABP #38 - Accounting Technology, Part 1 (Automatic Cash Application)

Steve interviews Joshua Burnett, CEO of 9ci, Inc., about automatic cash application systems.

Apr 26, 2007•17 min

ABP #37 - Forensic Accounting Investigations, and Logistics Metrics

Steve interviews Ms. Mona Clayton, Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, about forensic accounting investigations, and also discusses logistics measurements.

Apr 14, 2007•24 min

ABP #36 - The Universal Payment Identification Code, and Sales Metrics

Steve interviews Ms. Rossana Salaris, Senior VP of The Clearinghouse Payments Company, about their Universal Payment Identification Code, and also discusses sales measurements.

Apr 01, 2007•13 min