Tag Archives: organization

Is It Better to Have No Costing than Bad Costing?

I recently had an exciting conversation with Kris Moreels, founder and managing partner of B&M Consulting, a firm that specializes in designs of managerial accounting and strategy execution performance management systems. Kris and I share a common history as management consultants engaged by organizations to improve a weak and deficient managerial accounting system. He made [...]

Getting a Handle on the Outsourcing Discussion

We use “outsourcing” to mean so many things that there is no way it can really be true or practical for all of them. This one term is used in reference to such widely disparate activities as accessing lower-cost labor in Asia and having a Fortune 100 company run your data centers for you. Is [...]

Putting the Focus on Cash

So cash is king, once again. Not that it ever was dethroned; it’s just that, for a while, it shared its perch with other corporate goals, like growth. Not anymore. Credit is tight and sales are down, so companies have to wring all they can from the funds they have on hand. This prompts the [...]

Job Creation’s Ground Zero

Department of Energy CFO Steve Isakowitz was first appointed DOE CFO by President George W. Bush in 2007 and was last year reappointed to that role by President Obama. We recently spoke to Isakowitz and asked him about the DOE’s business hand.
BF: As CFO of a large government agency, what is your top priority today?
Isakowitz: [...]