Accounting Best Practices with Steve Bragg

How to create a highly accurate inventory record keeping system

Steve discusses how to allocate work to maximize collections.

Steve discusses how to select the best payroll cycle.

Steve discusses a variety of accounting best practices implementation issues, and how to avoid them.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about using the internal audit staff for profit recovery purposes.

 Steve interviews Carolyn Newman, president of Audimation Services, Inc., about IDEA data analysis software.

Steve discusses accounting standards convergence with international accounting standards expert Barry Epstein.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach about FASB Statements 157 and 159, which cover fair value measurements and the fair value option.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about the mechanics of the profit recovery process.

Steve discusses the types of controls to use for throughput accounting.

Steve discusses the implications of using throughput concepts on a series of financial analysis scenarios.

Steve describes how throughput accounting concepts alter the capital budgeting process.

Steve discusses how to manage a bottleneck operation in order to increase the level of throughput achieved.

Steve discusses the drum-buffer-rope aspects of constraint management, as well as the sprint capacity and throughput concepts.

Steve discusses how to create PDF versions of customer invoices, and how this can reduce collection problems.

Steve discusses how to use a check scanner to send electronic check payments to the bank.

Steve discusses time clocks that incorporate fingerprint scanners and hand shape readers, and in what situations they are most useful.

Steve interviews Mark Nickson, President of Telliris, about timekeeping by telephone.

Steve interviews Joshua Burnett, CEO of 9ci, Inc., about automatic cash application systems.

Steve interviews Ms. Mona Clayton, Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, about forensic accounting investigations, and also discusses logistics measurements.

Steve interviews Ms. Rossana Salaris, Senior VP of The Clearinghouse Payments Company, about their Universal Payment Identification Code, and also discusses sales measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about profit leaks and recovery auditing, and also discusses metrics for the accounting department.

Steve interviews Harry Cendrowski, co-author of The Fraud Deterrence Handbook and president of Cendrowski Selecky PC, about fraud deterrence.

Ralph Nach interviews Steve Bragg about acquiring a public shell company.

Mark Polino (from Transit Television Network) discusses accounting run charts, and Steve covers return on investment measurements.

Steve discusses operating performance measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding upcoming accounting standards in 2007, and discusses asset utilization measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza regarding how to locate Excel spreadsheet errors, and discusses cash flow measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding accounting in the year 2006, and discusses liquidity measurements.