The Value Add Accountant

Accounting delivers a lot of indecipherable reports. Finance rarely addresses the business leader’s need for a greater understanding of the complete financial impact of decisions made as well as decisions to be made. Both functions also have a lot of internal process waste. The Value Add Accountant can provide solutions to all of these issues.

Jean Cunningham and Orest Fiume wrote about their experience as CFO’s creating this role in the 2003 seminal Lean Accounting text, Real Numbers: Accounting for the Lean Organization. The Value Add Accountant expands the Real Numbers message by providing detailed examples of how to reveal accounting waste and get buy in on these pivotal accounting changes. It also describes how accounting can effectively evaluate corporate waste reduction and improvement activities.

You will learn how adopting this new role can enable accounting and finance to proactively support business decision making and impact improved outcomes.

Jean E. Cunningham

Jean E. Cunningham, former chief financial officer and vice president of company services for Lantech, Inc., was the leader in the company's transformation to lean beyond manufacturing. Today, she runs a lean consulting firm specializing in integrating a client's business functions i.e. accounting, HR, IT, etc.) with lean operations. This is known as Lean Business Management or The Lean Office. Jean has a BS in Accounting from Indiana University and an MBA from Northeastern University's Executive Program.