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Management Accounting and Unit Economics

Accounting

The numbers a manager uses to run the business rather than the ones an investor uses to judge it: what a unit actually costs, where profit is really made, and why the standard cost system usually points the wrong way. The investor's counterpart is Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, under investment themes.

Books 18Experts 2Recommenders 38

Start here

  1. The GoalEliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, 1984
  2. Financial IntelligenceKaren Berman, Joe Knight, 2006
  3. Lean AnalyticsAlistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz, 2013
  4. Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management AccountingH. Thomas Johnson, Robert S. Kaplan, 1987
The GoalThe Goal
T1 The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox · 1984
Open LibraryGoodreads

A plant manager learns that a system's output is set by its bottleneck.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 5 others

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of ManagemRelevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
T1 Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
H. Thomas Johnson, Robert S. Kaplan · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

How cost accounting served managers until financial reporting took it over.

The Balanced ScorecardThe Balanced Scorecard
T1 The Balanced Scorecard
Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Measure a firm on finance, customers, internal processes, and learning and growth.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Lean StartupThe Lean Startup
T1 The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Build, measure, learn: test what customers want with small experiments.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Chen and 17 others

Cost Accounting: A Managerial EmphasisCost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis
T2 Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis
Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav Rajan · 1962
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard cost accounting text, built around costs that serve managers' decisions.

Relevance RegainedRelevance Regained
T2 Relevance Regained
H. Thomas Johnson · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Johnson's follow-up, arguing against the ABC fix he helped start.

Cost & EffectCost & Effect
T2 Cost & Effect
Robert S. Kaplan, Robin Cooper · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to design cost systems, from activity-based costing to performance measures.

Beyond BudgetingBeyond Budgeting
T2 Beyond Budgeting
Jeremy Hope, Robin Fraser · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the annual budget harms firms, and how some run without one.

Financial IntelligenceFinancial Intelligence
T2 Financial Intelligence
Karen Berman, Joe Knight · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

How non-financial managers can read income statements, balance sheets and cash flow.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

Time-Driven Activity-Based CostingTime-Driven Activity-Based Costing
T2 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Robert S. Kaplan, Steven R. Anderson · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The simplified successor to ABC, after ABC proved too costly to run.

Lean AnalyticsLean Analytics
T2 Lean Analytics
Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Which metric actually governs each business-model type.

Recommended by: Marty Cagan, Michael Batko, Sean Ellis

Measure What MattersMeasure What Matters
T2 Measure What Matters
John Doerr · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Objectives and key results, the goal system Grove built at Intel and Google adopted.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Amy Hood, Craig Blair and 4 others

Double Your ProfitsDouble Your Profits
T3 Double Your Profits
Bob Fifer · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cost discipline handbook widely used by buyout and turnaround operators

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other

Throughput AccountingThroughput Accounting
T3 Throughput Accounting
Thomas Corbett · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Goldratt's theory of constraints turned into an accounting method.

Practical Lean AccountingPractical Lean Accounting
T3 Practical Lean Accounting
Brian H. Maskell, Bruce Baggaley · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why standard costing hinders lean factories, and value-stream costing instead.

Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
T3 Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
Greg Crabtree, Beverly Herzog · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Owner-operator economics: labour efficiency and the four keys.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

Data-Driven MarketingData-Driven Marketing
T4 Data-Driven Marketing
Mark Jeffery · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fifteen metrics that show which marketing spending works and which does not.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jeff Bezos

Profit FirstProfit First
T4 Profit First
Mike Michalowicz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cash discipline for small businesses; a system, not an accounting theory.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, John D Saunders, Ran Segall

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