Has anyone read "Bean Soup - Beyond Bean Counting"?

Hi Anders, The book is getting a bit of traction in this part of the world (Australasia) and a few to the USA. The following two articles will give even more insight than the web-site:

Tried & tested for Australasian SMEs

http://www.interest.co.nz/business/65497/stuart-bilbrough-explains-why-finance-teams-need-be-transformed-processing-transactio

'The Goal' of finance and accounting

http://www.interest.co.nz/business/65657/stuart-bilbrough-explains-how-you-can-use-new-book-bean-soup-get-finance-function-per

I think the book is great but then again I wrote it.

If you'd like a copy you can get it through www.thebeansoupbook.com. If you get it, have a look through it and think it's rubbish then send it back and I'll reimburse you. And that goes for anyone.

Thanks,

Stuart

Thank you Stuart. I might just do that!

I think the topic in general is gaining a lot of traction and as a side-note we have within my team been working on the strategy "From Beancounters To Business Partners" for the past 1.5 years and it is really proving to be a success.

I must say that this is a very nice thread in terms of topical area. I'm going to download the first chapter which is available on www.thebeansoupbook.com and will let you know if I decide to get the book.

"From Bean counters to Business Partners" - that's great.

I spent a few years with American Express and they demonstrated to me how close Finance could work with the business effectively. The reality for me was that it made my own role and career in Finance and accounting much more interesting.

While in Singapore I moved to Deutsche Bank who had started quite a significant Finance transformation. This included outsourcing core functions to the Philippines, improving their IT and up skilling 'on-shore' Finance team members with training.

What I have done with Bean Soup is focus on the training and who it would work best for small to medium sized organisations - i.e. those organisations that may not have the resource or time to do what large corporates have done. Including as a story was to assist with providing meaningful illustrations.

Thanks

Hi Stuart - finished reading the first chapter. I want a hard copy and got as far as checkout. Do you have a promo code we can use?

Hi Ken,

The promo code cell is part of the standard Wordpress template for linking through to PayPal. Please ignore it.

Thanks a lot for the interest in the book.

Regards, Stuart

For those interested I've another article in the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants magazine. This is the first of three.

http://www.nzica.com/News/Archive/2013/August/Beyond-financial-control.aspx