Standard Costing Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Standard Costing Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Standard Costing 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Standard Costing improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. How will standard costing be affected if your organization uses a single conversion element rather than the traditional labor and overhead elements?
   
   

2. Does your organization coordinate with other exporters in setting prices or in determining which companies will sell to which markets?
   
   

3. What responsibilities does your organization have to a depositor for the payment of checks written by the depositor?
   
   

4. What obligations does a depositor have to your organization in which the depositor maintains a checking account?
   
   

5. How well do you understand your business model and your relationship with your important stakeholder groups?
   
   

6. Where are you making decisions on contribution margin and losing money when considering total product cost?
   
   

7. Do you periodically review your system to make sure it is responsive to your organizations current needs?
   
   

8. Which of your employees will be the next most likely to resign and take a job with another organization?
   
   

9. Will the additional information ABC provides result in action that will increase overall profitability?
   
   

10. Is it simply a sequential number or is additional information included in the code, as point of sale?
    
    


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 Standard Costing book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Standard Costing Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Standard Costing project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Lessons Learned: What regulatory regime controlled how your organization head and program manager directed your organization and Standard Costing project?
   
   

2. WBS Dictionary: Are the requirements for all items of overhead established by rational, traceable processes?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Are enough systems & user personnel assigned to the Standard Costing project?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Are staff skills known and available for each task?
   
   

5. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: What unique or lowest-cost resources does the Standard Costing project have access to?
   
   

6. Communications Management Plan: Are there common objectives between the team and the stakeholder?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Are there inferior competencies among procurement staff?
   
   

8. Requirements Documentation: How do you know when a Requirement is accurate enough?
   
   

9. Source Selection Criteria: How are clarifications and communications appropriately used?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: How closely did deliverables match what was defined within the Standard Costing project Scope?


 
Step-by-step and complete Standard Costing Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Standard Costing project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Standard Costing project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing project with this in-depth Standard Costing Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing 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 Standard Costing investments work better.

This Standard Costing 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.