Animated Overview You can watch a quick two minute overview of the predictive model here: http://youtu.be/eWWQ0exP9-0 Conventional Budgeting A university is really an array of interacting organisations that not only provide services to staff and / or students but also receive services from other areas of the university. Let’s say, for example, a faculty requests an […]
READ MOREI’ve been reading a lot of articles about MOOCs and online courses versus good old fashioned classroom based learning. In a recent article this week in the Australian Financial Review, Brad Wheeler, CIO of the 110,000-student Indiana University was discussing the four models of online delivery: the “flipped classroom” where course content is available online but […]
READ MOREToday’s blog post is taken directly from our latest newsletter, normally our newsletters are specifically written for our clients and ACE user audience, but this latest newsletter was a bit more generic and is focused on Environmental / Carbon Accounting. This is a very topical and political subject and there seems to be passionate people […]
READ MOREIn the first issue of our Pilbara Group newsletter for 2011 (InterfACE), there is a great article outlining the use of string compare drivers in our ACE solution. While the newsletter article specifically looks at the use of location tags to automate the allocation of costs to nominated areas or regions in activity based costing […]
READ MOREWell it’s been a busy time the last few months. We have finally moved to a single brand and have removed all our other websites / brands / logos. We have removed the old acesuite.com / aceondemand.com websites as well as abmtech.com.au – we are officially trading as Pilbara Group internationally, although our Australian company […]
READ MOREDefining a model’s scope before beginning to build it may be the difference between developing a useable, defendable and pertinent model that can answer multiple operational and management questions, and that of a model that may struggle to be relevant and robust 12 months down the track. What does a scoping study involve? A scoping […]
READ MOREWow! I found out this morning that I can use my iPhone as a remote control for PowerPoint presentations….so I apologise in advance to any clients that I’m presenting to in the next few weeks…you will no doubt be my guinea pigs 🙂 Talking about clients, many of Pilbara Group’s university clients have asked the […]
READ MOREToday’s post comes from our good friend at Arkonas, John Miller. With 40 years experience both in industry where he held the position of CFO for a publicly held New York Stock Exchange company and as a principal to industry for an international consulting firm, John combines the skills of a consultant with the mindset […]
READ MOREIf so, we would like to talk to you. We are looking to interview organizations who are currently modelling their carbon emissions from a Management Accounting perspective, rather than statutory reporting perspective. We are currently researching best/common practice at organizations globally. CAM-I (Consortium of Advanced Management – International) is an international not-for-profit collaborative forum of […]
READ MOREAt the moment in Australia and the US there is currently little real incentive for any organization to manage or understand its overall carbon footprint, except if it is physically emitting global warming gases and comes under Scope 1 emissions or is a large energy user and falls under Scope 2 emissions. Scope 1 Emissions […]
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