Books

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Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization
(April, 2003)

Managing Times Press
Copyright 2003, 180 pages
Jean Cunningham and Orest Fuime with Emily Adams

Real life experiences in implementing lean in manufacturingand the implications and opportunities for the finance and accountingorganization.

Awarded the Shingo Prize for Research, 2004.

Required reading for the SME Lean Certification,Silver Level

Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT
(February, 2007)

Productivity Press
Copyright 2006, 163 pages
Jean Cunningham and Duane Jones

Based on real experience at Lantech in developing andapplying appropriate information systems for the lean organization.

Awarded the Shingo Prize for Research, 2008.

Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration
(March 2007)

Wiley House
Copyright 2007, 309 pages
Joe Stenzel, Editor

Collection of new works by 13 leaders in the emerging field of Lean.

Jean Cunningham contributed chapter 9, "Lean Application in Accounting Environments" (22 pages), with practical guidance and success stories for bringing lean into the accounting function as part of the lean enterprise.  Three focus areas are outlined and ten sequenced activities are explained which when applied will enable organizations to raise the accounting bar to meet the lean challenge.