The Lean Accounting Learning Center
“The Lean Accounting Learning Center is where I've consolidated my experience, content, and approach to practicing lean accounting, so you can use it on your own. Whether you're curious and want to learn what lean accounting is, ready to plan a transformation, or looking to sustain your system once you've started, you'll find the content, courses, and applications to guide you at each step.”
Nick Katko (nkatko@maskell.com)
Choose Your Path
Learn About Lean Accounting
Free Explainer Videos, Exercises and Activities that explain Lean Accounting from the ground up across the two practice areas of Lean Accounting.
Videos have been created from BMA's standard training materials. Videos, exercises and activities average about 10 minutes each. You have unlimited, free access to watch the videos and complete the exercises whenever you want.
- Lean Management Accounting: 6 Core Videos, 12 Advanced Videos, 12 exercises and activities
- Continuous Improvement System in Accounting: 4 Core Videos, 5 Advanced Videos, 9 exercises and activities
Assess & Plan
Free assessment checklists to determine your readiness for Lean Accounting, identify your starting points, plan your initial pilots and create a full implementation plan.
Assessments and planners have been created from BMA's standard methods when working with companies.
Become Certified
Self-Paced Certification Courses designed to demonstrate individual competency and knowledge in understanding the principles, practices and tools of a lean accounting system.
Core courses contain 4 to 5 recorded classes, quizzes and certificates. Advanced courses are exercises, a quiz and a certificate. Enroll once and have lifetime access to the courses.
Lean Management Accounting Certifications: Lean Management Accounting System; Value Stream Management; Solving the Standard Costing Problem; Advanced Lean Management Accounting
Continuous Improvement System in Accounting Certifications: Lean Accounting Process Improvement; Advanced Continuous Improvement System in Accounting
Pricing
- Individual $150 per course or $600 for all courses.
- Group Pricing (5 or more people from same company) $100 per course per person.
- Companies can also make a one-time purchase for unlimited use within your company.
Practice Lean Accounting
Practical tools designed to help users and companies develop and sustain their Lean Accounting practice.
- Lean Accounting AI Coach: The Lean Accounting AI Coach answers your questions and can coach you step by step in any aspect of Lean Accounting, in Nick Katko's voice and grounded in his content.
- Lean Management Accounting: These analysis and decision making tools work for any lean company in any industry. The Box Score Analyzer, Linkage Chart Builder, Value Stream P&L Creator and Capacity Calculator can be used to accelerate your pilots and standardize your analysis and decision making. The Financial Benefits of Lean Calculator and ROI of Lean will quantify improvements in terms of capacity improvement and financial improvement.
- Continuous Improvement System in Accounting: The A3 and 5 Whys Builder, DOWNTIME Waste Walk, Month-End Close Tracker, and virtual Daily Huddle help accounting teams in problem solving. The Accounting Capacity Calculator, Box Score Analyzer, and Linkage Chart Builder are designed specifically for analyzing continuous improvement in accounting.
- Value Stream & Process Mapping: These tools are designed to help users build and store SIPOC charts, Value Stream and Process Maps, and Swimlane diagrams.