CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine articles from February 1994

CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine archives from February 1994

The Society: an ideal association. (Society of Management Accountants of Canada) (A Word from the Chairperson) (Column)
February 1, 1994... Recently I was challenged to examine the premise that The Society of Management Accountants is an ideal association. With great confidence, I agreed. According to Dr. William Coleman, an international authority on industry associations, the acid...

The impact of a powerful new process at Moosehead. (Moosehead Breweries Ltd.) (Management Perspectives) (Column)
February 1, 1994... Over the past two and one-half years, Moosehead Breweries Limited has undergone a complete information processing transformation with the implementation of a management information system. From the outset of the project, the executive team made...

No metaphors on the information highway. (Information Management: Commentary)
February 1, 1994... It' s on everyone's lips and in every publication. To U.S. vice-president, Al Gore, it is the key to national competitiveness. To some in Canada, it's the new national dream. It's the information highway and I just had to say something before it...

Change manager. (AT&T Canada's Vice-President and General Manager Janice Kornell) (Cover Story)
February 1, 1994... For Janice Kornell, vaulting her way to a corner office before her thirtieth birthday was less a matter of finding the fast lane at AT & T Canada than of searching out apportunities for personal growth. Two years later, this CMA still dismisses...

Document management pushing the paper aside.
February 1, 1994... Document management can take away that "tight-white-collar" feeling, make your workforce more productive, and help you gain competitive advantage. Accustomed to recessions that vent their fury on the relatively unskilled members of society,...

Management control systems for hospital clinical services.
February 1, 1994... While physicians control much of the hospital's output, and generate much of its costs, management accounting tools can achieve significant efficiencies. Hospital expenditures in Canada have been growing at a rate of 8 per cent per annum...

Making benchmarking faster, cheaper, and easier. (International Benchmarking Clearinghouse)
February 1, 1994... After two years in operation, here's how the International Benchmarking Clearing House is helping organizations to be humble enough to admit that someone else is better at something, and to be wise enough to try to match and even surpass them at...

Change management: still a scary prospect. (Quality and Productivity) (Column)
February 1, 1994... Despite the inescapable reality of change and the effects it is having on the business landscape, a recent Gallup poll found that the leaders of major corporations are, in effect, dealing with change by firmly placing their heads in the sand....

Customer service is easy - and it attracts repeat business. (Communications and Relationships) (Column)
February 1, 1994... Don't let yourself become jaded and callous in your customer relations. In these frenetic times, it' s easy to get caught up in expanding product lines, adding bells and whistles, and slashing prices. But when all things are equal, the one...

Registered retirement savings plans: a checklist. (Taxes) (Column)
February 1, 1994... Both for tax purposes and retirement planning, a contribution to a taxpayer's registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) could be a very worthwhile investment. The following will help one make the proper choices when deciding upon RRSP...

Value-added invoice processing: a re-engineering case study. (Public Sector Forum) (Column)
February 1, 1994... The old "chicken-or-the-egg" argument is increasingly being raised with respect to information technology and administrative improvements: which comes first, the technology to enable better administration or the changes to some of the inherent...

Profiles of successful CMAs and CMA candidates. (Certified Management Accountants) (CMA Dimensions)
February 1, 1994... British Columbia The Society of Management Accountants of British Columbia P.O. Box 11548 1575 - 650 West Georgia St. Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4W7 Telephone (604) 687-5891 Yukon The Society of Management Accountants of Yukon P.O. Box 4823...