From the course: Lean Accounting Foundations
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Build a box score
- [Instructor] Taking the big step of developing a box score is my favorite part of the lean accounting process, because it's when you get to see the beauty of the journey come together. By now, you should have a sound knowledge of value streams and how they are used to model the flow of key business processes. You should also understand what a completed value stream analysis looks like such as the one that you can see here. And you should also know what a completed box score looks like. So without further ado, let's take a look at how to piece together a box score from scratch for the large toy cars value stream that we've been working with. But firstly, what tool should we use? Now, whilst there are a number of choices out there, even if your organization eventually invest in lean accounting specific software, I strongly recommend starting with an easy-to-configure spreadsheet tool such as Excel until the processes…
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