Enterprise Resource Management
Cost Management
What is the full cost of producing your organization’s goods or services? In fact, what does “full cost” mean? Are you charging an appropriate amount for your goods and services? Cost accounting and appropriate management reporting provide tools to better understand your business.
Sterling Associates consultants are cost management experts. We have put cost accounting tools in managers’ hands without requiring them to become accountants.
Your cost accounting system design depends on your business, the information you want and the incentives you deploy. We have the technical expertise to improve your cost accounting tools.
Cost accounting changes stir up other issues and provide opportunities to streamline accounting, organization, and reporting structures. It can surface the true cost of administration and internal service activities, and raise tough questions about the nature and level of these services. These issues are a natural companion to cost accounting changes. We will help you develop a tailored cost management approach, including education, collaboration and effective communication strategies in support of your effort.
Financial Systems Improvement
Does your financial management system meet your evolving information reporting needs? Are you able to provide requested information and reports? Do you understand your operating costs and revenues? Do you know what you need?
Sterling Associates can assess the efficiency of your unique financial management system, your business budget and accounting processes, and support improvements that will enhance your decisions and increase your effectiveness.
Workload and Staffing Assessments
Are growing workloads overwhelming your staff? Are backlogs mounting in the face of staffing reductions? Where is the greatest need for staff support? How do you justify professional staffing levels?
Sterling Associates pioneered a credible workload measurement methodology that provides a reliable means for calculating the time required to process and manage a given workload. The output enables you to explain and defend your staffing needs, and allows you to simulate the time and staff affects of program or policy changes, business process improvements or organizational variations.