For financial professionals, business executives, and Lean leaders, Katko, a consultant who has been a chief financial officer, describes how a chief financial officer (CFO) can become a Lean
CFO by leading a company in developing and deploying a Lean management system. He explains the strategic aspects of making money from a Lean business strategy, including how Lean principles,
practices, and tools change the laws of supply and demand; how flow can increase operating profit; how office flow can drive financial success by putting Lean practices into place in every
business process; how and why to move the company away from performance measures based on traditional manufacturing practices and into a Lean performance measurement system; how to move into
value stream accounting; why to construct a value stream capacity measurement system; how to make business decisions using the Box Score; how to break away from standard costing; and how and
why the enterprise resource planning system must be modified to support Lean. No bibliography is included. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
