CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine articles from October 1995

CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine archives from October 1995

The key to wealth creation in Canada: breaking the compromise in your business.(Cover Story)
October 1, 1995... Canada is going through a period of profound economic change. The evidence is in the rapid rise and fall of companies and whole industries. But in reality, what is at root cause is that the fundamental basis of wealth creation in this country is...

Beyond MRPII: toward world-class manufacturing. (traditional manufacturing resource planning)
October 1, 1995... Five traits to look for in a manufacturing software system that enables a firm to aim for "world-class" status Providing software support for a mature, world-class manufacturer, is a relatively straightforward task. The company has already...

How to launch a new product successfully.
October 1, 1995... Don't invest in product failures. This new process, called the stage-gate system, can help you drive new products to market, quickly and successfully. New products fail at an alarming rate. An estimated 46 per cent of the money that...

Re-engineering the financial function.
October 1, 1995... For most firms, the financial function has been bypassed in the drive toward business process re-engineering. Here's why - and how - to use a "value chain approach" in re-engineering your organization's financial function. When organizations...

Information management. (use of Windows 95 and data backups)
October 1, 1995... Windows 95 is a whole new toolbox Microsoft's Windows 95 and its related Office for Windows 95 introduces a whole new computing environment that changes the way IBM-compatible personal computers are used and managed. Windows 95 replaces both...