understanding of how those numbers translate into real-world
performance. The widespread current emphasis on only past
financial performance leads to an unbalanced situation with
regard to other perspectives.
Benefits
The principal benefit of implementing a balanced scorecard is
to align key performance measures with a clear strategy at all
levels of the organization using a double feedback loop of inter-
nal and external data. Management works from a forward-look-
ing, comprehensive picture of business operations. BSC
methodology gives an easily understood common structure that
makes personal communications clearer. It also helps people at
all levels of the organization understand business goals and
strategies.
While your organization may not use BSC, there are certain-
ly several useful concepts that can apply to management activi-
ties within a more traditional cost structure.
Hybrid Costing
Hybrid costing is an umbrella term that refers to one or more
types of cost accounting systems. It can refer, for example, to
the backflush costing procedures associated with just-in-time
inventory and to operation costing techniques that are applied
when a process costing production run takes on the features of
a job order.
Just-in-Time Inventory
In Chapter 6 you had a quick introduction to just-in-time (JIT)
inventory management. The basic description of the JIT con-
cept is a system in which each component on a production line
is produced immediately as needed for the next step in the pro-
duction line. JIT is an example of a cost accounting system
modification that can be used in conjunction with other, more
traditional accounting and production systems.
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