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Critical Performance Measures: Essential Tools for Gauging Success
Francis X. Ryan
Copyright© 2008

Course: 1059   Version 0910

NASBA Category:     Accounting     CPE Credits 6
Level: Basic
Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites.
Advance Preparation: None.


Course Description
Within many organizations, especially those that are growing quickly or those that are quite large, there is a tendency to lose sight of where the company is going. Departments and individuals develop tunnel vision and fail to see the larger picture. Business activities are maintained because “that’s the way they’ve always been done.” Company leaders do not have a good grasp of what is really critical to make their firms succeed.

This course will allow you “strip away the barnacles” on your company and identify its essential success factors. Once you learn this skill, you then can work on developing measures of performance for each factor. In this course, you’ll gain valuable insights on how this is done by looking at a variety of actual case studies of firms in different industries. You’ll also discover how to develop systems that alert you when performance in key areas is lacking and how to achieve optimum performance. Finally, you’ll learn a variety of tools and processes used in this approach, including target costing, an external funds needed model, cost of capital models, and daily flash reporting.


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Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
  • Section 1
    • Discuss critical success factors and explain how they are linked to the strategy of a company.
    • Discuss how critical success factors reflect the company’s mission and vision.
    • Differentiate among mission, strategy, and product concept.
    • Cite case studies of companies showing how product concept is important to the product development cycle.
  • Section 2
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