Imagine being able to increase revenues without increasing the cost base! This topic is bound to create a lot of robust discussion, which is encouraged and it should be discussed. We are talking about understanding the capacity of the teaching environment so that schools maintain the optimum number of lecturers/teachers for the enrolled students. This […]
READ MORESetting the Pace in Indy Indiana’s capital city hosted the NACUBO 2013 Annual Meeting, where business officers completed some victory laps in learning about the innovations vital to today’s higher education institutions. Good Governance Needed In these sessions, attendees considered how they can redesign and implement new business practices, overcome resistance to institutional change, and […]
READ MOREIntroduction The survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers (CAOs) was recently released and is available at http://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2013/02/14/2013-inside-higher-ed-survey-chief-academic-officers. The survey covers a range of issues that CAOs in the United States have concerns about or they believe are in need of attention within their institution. The objective of this paper is not revisit each […]
READ MOREI’ve read a lot lately across a range of topics on higher education and wanted to bring together a number of themes into one post. Let’s start with all the good news. Demand for higher education is increasing and is seen to be important, in a recent survey by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation they found […]
READ MOREAnimated 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 MOREOver the past few weeks I have posted a couple of blogs on my top three ‘must haves’ when looking at procuring activity based costing software. My top three were: the ability to report on not only the beginning and end of your model (the inputs and outputs), but all stages in-between; the ability to […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago I posted a blog on my top three ‘must haves’ when looking at procuring activity based costing software. My top three were: the ability to report on not only the beginning and end of your model (the inputs and outputs), but all stages in-between; the ability to track multiple cost […]
READ MOREI did some work for a client this month that I think was a little unusual in today’s world of technology, internet and the need to do things ‘now, now, now’. Like the majority of our clients, this one was looking at developing an activity based costing (ABC) model. But unlike most of our clients, […]
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 […]
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