. Xu hướng rất khó để đánh giá các dữ liệu tổng hợp vì mẫu gần đây của các công ty trên toàn thế giới nhiều hơn so với mẫu trước đó khi trả lời được tập trung ở châu Âu và Bắc Mỹ. Tuy nhiên, một số lượng lớn các công ty công cụ sử dụng trên toàn thế giới và thực tiễn liên quan đến quản lý nạc. | Lean Application in Accounting Environments 213 team downstream from accounting for problem customers and manufacturing someone outside the process. For this event in particular we also invited someone from a collection firm. He joined us for two days during the event and we were able to learn tips and gain perspective from his professional expertise. As it turned out he also gained knowledge on waste elimination that he was able to put to work at his company. It was a great partnership. In most events where we invite people from outside the company it is pretty difficult to tell who is an employee and who isn t within a few hours. It seems that everyone really enjoys the opportunity to contribute when empowered for change. In another recent event one team member John discovered that the person after him in the process Jane from a different department routinely reorganized the information and fixed errors in the data before proceeding. John had no idea that errors were being passed along and was somewhat embarrassed that it occurred in the first place. Thereafter he sent the data forward with no errors and even reformatted it to meet the next person s needs. John hadn t known there was a problem and Jane simply thought that was how it was. The fix was easy and fast and made both people happy. HOW TO GET STARTED AND NEVER END Ten interdependent activities enable enterprises to adopt and support the lean accounting focus areas described in the previous section. While they all overlap they are listed in the order that most enterprises are usually capable of following as people become engulfed in the full benefits of adopting lean concepts. 1. Plunge into operation s lean activities. 2. Lead a culture of continuous improvement. 3. Reduce the closing calendar. 4. Optimize financial data usage. 5. Convert to English. 6. Support lean measures. 7. Attack accounting waste. 8. Evaluate and or eliminate standard cost accounting. 9. Engage kanban. 10. Become a consultative
