IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lean Management Accounting Workshop Resolves Conflicts Between Lean Thinking and
Traditional Accounting

“Management Accounting for Lean Businesses” is aimed at finance and operations managers
who are running into conflicts between their traditional management accounting systems and the
application of lean principles that continuously improve their businesses.

Cambridge, MA, Feb. 25, 2010 -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will present the
workshop “Management Accounting for Lean Businesses” to help financial and operations
managers and executives understand and implement the necessary changes in finance needed to
support a lean transformation.

The workshop will run May 13, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Marriott Seattle Airport,
Seattle, WA. It is part of a series of eleven public workshops on how to implement lean
management concepts in healthcare and administrative processes as well as in management
accounting and corporate strategy.

Lean Management Accounting Workshop

http://www.lean.org/Workshops/WorkshopDescription.cfm?
WorkshopEventId=21&WorkshopId=14
The workshop will guide financial and operations managers through the necessary changes in
finance needed to support lean transformations, which often cause conflicts with long-
established accounting systems. Attendees will learn:
• Why traditional management accounting doesn’t support lean transformations.
• How to create plain-English financial statements that nonfinancial managers can use for
decision making.
• How to eliminate waste from the accounting system so information is reported faster.
• Why lean is a business strategy that transforms the entire organization.
• The logic and proven methodology for creating a lean accounting system that accurately
reveals the benefits of a lean transformation that are hidden in conventional financial
statements. (For example, significant productivity gains and profits can appear lower as
inventories are lowered, even though cash flow improves dramatically.)
The workshop also will cover performance measurement, cost management, inventory
accounting, budgeting, and a road map for implementing lean accounting step-by-step as
operations move from batch-and-queue production to flow.

Lean Thinking
Workshop instructor Orest Fiume, former vice president of finance and administration of The
Wiremold Company, led the company’s conversion to lean accounting, a key element in its
adoption of lean management. The transformation was made famous in Lean Thinking by James
P. Womack and Dan T. Jones. While at Wiremold, Fiume also developed accounting systems
that supported the company’s entire lean business efforts and went on to install lean accounting
at more than 20 Wiremold acquisitions.

Pricing and Discounts

The $800 workshop fee includes tuition, training materials, breakfast, lunch, and snacks. For
complete details about content, instructors, discounts, special room rates, and to register, go to:
http://www.lean.org/workshops/workshopcalendar.cfm?cureventid=54 , call 617- 871-2900, or
email registrar@lean.org .

What is Lean?
http://www.lean.org/WhatsLean/
The terms lean manufacturing, lean production, or lean management refer to a complete business
system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, customer
relations, and the overall enterprise that requires less capital, material, space, time, or human
effort to produce products and services with fewer defects to precise customer desires, compared
with traditional modern management.

Lean Enterprise Institute

http://www.lean.org/
Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., was founded in 1997 by management expert James P. Womack,
Ph.D., as a nonprofit research, education, publishing, and conference company with a mission to
advance lean thinking around the world. We teach courses, hold management seminars, write
and publish books and workbooks, and organize public and private conferences. We use the
surplus revenues from these activities to conduct research projects and support other lean
initiatives such as the Lean Education Academic Network, the Lean Global Network, and the
Healthcare Value Leaders Network. Visit LEI at http://www.lean.org for more information.

Media: Chet Marchwinski, cmarchwinski@lean.org, (617) 871-2930