The Why! Company

   Throughput Accounting - Thomas Corbett

Learn How To Apply The Theory Of Constraints To Management Accounting. The Theory of Constraints, a management philosophy derived from physics, assumes that constraints prevent organizations from achieving better performance.

Reveals a new management tool for managerial accounting and shows an alternative path for other management practices. Enables managers to quickly see if their decisions increase profitability. Demonstrates some of cost accounting's flaws, and shows how these errors will lead to bad decision making. Compares the paradigm of TOC-based throughput accounting with more conventional cost accounting methodologies and in the process, demonstrates a new way to solve the complex problems of modern management.

   The Balanced Scorecard - Robert S. Kaplan

As running a corporate - or government or not-for-profit - enterprise becomes increasingly complicated, more sophisticated approaches are needed to implement strategy and measure performance. Purely financial evaluations of performance, for example, no longer suffice in a world where intangible assets - relationships and capabilities - increasingly determine the prospects for success. Kaplan, a Harvard Business School professor of accounting, and Norton, president of Renaissance Solutions, make a key contribution by describing and illustrating the balanced scorecard, a multidimensional approach to measuring corporate performance that incorporates both financial and non-financial factors.

   Insights to Performance Excellence 2002 - Mark L. Blazey

This best-selling publication is updated annually to reflect the changes made each year to the Baldrige Award criteria. Mark Blazey has simplified the 2002 criteria, clearly demonstrating the linkages and relationships between each of the 18 items that comprise the criteria. Insights to Performance Excellence 2002 will strengthen your understanding of the Baldrige Award criteria and provide valuable information about analyzing your organization and achieving higher levels of performance.

Includes a bonus CD-ROM with Microsoft Word® files which enable organizations to more easily compile information with which to prepare a Baldrige narrative application.