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Finance

Accounting for Your Waste

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

—W. Edwards Deming

Finance and accounting operations are by their definition effective because the people who perform these functions, and the functions themselves, are very detail focused. The issue in this area of business is the efficiency of operations. Now before all the business leaders with finance backgrounds throw this book away, we are not saying that finance people don’t work hard. Some of the hardest working people we know have worked in accounting or finance. The question is whether all of the activities that we do in these areas of the business are ...

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