Speaker Profile
GARY COKINS
Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS industrial engineering/operations research) 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC www.garycokins.com. He began his career in the industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. Then 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS (now part of HP). From 1997 until 2013 Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a business analytics software vendor. His most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics and Predictive Business Analytics.
Gary Cokins
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Analytics-Based Enterprise Performance Management
Many organizations are far from where they want and need to be with improving performance, and they apply intuition, rather than hard data when making decisions. Enterprise performance management (EPM) is now viewed as the seamless integration of managerial methods such as strategy execution with a strategy map and its companion balanced scorecard (KPIs) and operational dashboards (PIs); enterprise risk man..
Gary Cokins
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Business Analytics for Decision Making – Making it Work
This presentation focuses on how the finance and accounting function can leverage analytics, especially predictive ones, embedded in their financial reporting, planning, and decision making.Finance and accounting professionals are typically considered to be very quantitative. They are by nature number-crunchers. But collecting, validating, and reporting data is not the same thing as analyzing the informatio..
Gary Cokins
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts
This presentation involves the shift from historical reporting to predictive costing such as capacity-sensitive driver-based rolling financial forecasts, what-if analysis, marginal cost analysis (e.g pricing), and target costing for new products and services.The annual budgeting process is being criticized as obsolete soon after it is published, prone to gamesmanship, cumbersome to consolidate cost center s..
Gary Cokins
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management
Logistics and supply chain managers have increasingly realized that the greatest potential to create financial value lies not within a single firm but across all the trading partner enterprises comprising a supply chain, particularly at the interface between trading partners. At the boundaries of their firm – with their suppliers and customers – is where companies can identify mutually beneficial cost..
Gary Cokins
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The Top 7 Trends in Management Accounting
Many organizations are far from where they want and need to be with improving performance, and they apply intuition, rather than hard data when making decisions. Enterprise performance management (EPM) is now viewed as the seamless integration of managerial methods such as strategy execution with a strategy map and its companion balanced scorecard (KPIs) and operational dashboards (PIs); enterprise risk man..
Activity-Based Cost Management
Critics have claimed that traditional managerial accounting is at best useless and at worst dysfunctional and misleading. Today’s general ledger and budgeted spending systems support departmental and “stovepipe” managerial philosophies. In contrast, activity-based cost management (ABC/M) information supports process-based thinking. ABC is a key component of the increasingly popular enterprise and corporate ..