Cost Allocation System Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Cost Allocation System Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Cost Allocation System related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Cost Allocation System specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Cost Allocation System Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cost Allocation System improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:

  1. How does management use information available to it about department workload and workload policies to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your organization instruction?

  2. Does the wbs identify the costs allocated for each wbs element associated with program management and systems integration and are the bases for costs clear and reasonable?

  3. Which manufacturing disciplines and capacities do you commit to the project, which engineers with which skill sets, how many project managers and inventory are available?

  4. What happens if a review in a future year indicates that the asset is no longer impaired because the recoverable amount of the asset is higher than the carrying amount?

  5. How does management use the information available about department workload and workload policies to monitor the effectiveness of your organization department?

  6. Is the billing system expected to post transactions to financial systems or only prepare an exported data set that can be imported into the financial systems?

  7. What are the benefits of using an activity based costing system in preference to a traditional absorption costing system to allocate production overheads?

  8. Can an embedded cost approach to cost allocation allocate costs based on cost causation and set rates that improve allocative and productive efficiency?

  9. Are there ways to have the database manage the work on the system so that the proper resource allocations are made to the proper users and applications?

  10. Does the accounting system provide for a logical and consistent method for the allocation of indirect costs to intermediate and final cost objectives?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Cost Allocation System book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Cost Allocation System self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Cost Allocation System Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Cost Allocation System areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Cost Allocation System Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Cost Allocation System projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Cost Allocation System Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Cost Allocation System project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the key components of a Cost Allocation System project communications plan?

  2. Human Resource Management Plan: Are non-critical path items updated and agreed upon with the teams?

  3. Activity Duration Estimates: What is the difference between % Complete and % work?

  4. Lessons Learned: How efficient and effective were Cost Allocation System project team meetings?

  5. Cost Management Plan: How difficult will it be to do specific tasks on the Cost Allocation System project?

  6. Activity Attributes: How many resources do you need to complete the work scope within a limit of X number of days?

  7. Schedule Management Plan: Are meeting objectives identified for each meeting?

  8. Activity Duration Estimates: Are costs that may be needed to account for Cost Allocation System project risks determined?

  9. Procurement Audit: Are there regular accounting reconciliations of contract payments, transactions and inventory?

  10. Cost Management Plan: Are the results of quality assurance reviews provided to affected groups & individuals?

 
Step-by-step and complete Cost Allocation System Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Cost Allocation System project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Cost Allocation System project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Cost Allocation System project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Cost Allocation System project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Cost Allocation System project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Cost Allocation System project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Cost Allocation System project with this in-depth Cost Allocation System Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Cost Allocation System projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Cost Allocation System and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Cost Allocation System investments work better.

This Cost Allocation System All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.