Setting Accounting Manager Performance Goals & Targets

Budget to Actual, Expenses related to that person as a % to Income, their portion of payroll dollars to Income. Love the finance team payroll as a % to income; it forces the person to really analyze hiring needs in a way that impacts their own pay.

Adding to Christie's list, try some of these:
-Number of days to report prior month's financial results
-DPO: days payables outstanding
-DSO: sales sales outstanding
Plus identify some innovation targets:
-moving x% of transactions to paperless processing (AR and AP)

Follow your existing trend to achieve the targets and avoid to go on extreme which is not achievable.

Follow up to Syed's reply. Agreed - whatever you do, don't set unattainable targets. You want this to be motivating so providing some good stretch goals aimed at improving the process is great. Feel free to also visit the targets periodically to make sure they are still reasonable. Things change and some of the targets may need to be altered as business changes.