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Balanced Scorecard Plain and Simple: Do-It-Yourself with Microsoft Access
Balanced Scorecard Plain and Simple DoItYourself with Microsoft Access Author:Catherine Maninger Balanced Scorecard Plain and Simple: Do-It-Yourself with Microsoft Access takes the encyclopedic volume of knowledge about the Balanced Scorecard, simplifies it, provides multiple-industry examples, and includes a ready-to-use Microsoft Access database for tracking your own Balanced Scorecard. Part I of the book explains the basic building block... more »s of a Balanced Scorecard and how to use the included database. Part II details the design of the enclosed database. The companion database is designed to do the following: 1. Accommodate non-calendar fiscal years, 2. Define one or more BSCs (Company, Division and/or Department); allow measures to be used in multiple scorecards, 3. Organize hierarchy of strategies, objectives, performance drivers and initiatives; allow for frequent BSC reporting changes, 4. Allow for measures to have three levels of goals, tied to a color indicator (red, yellow or green) depending on if lower is better or vice-versa, 5. Assign measure owners, both for data entry and business accountability, 6. Automatically calculate quarter and annual results for measures with the following summary types: average, latest and sum, and 7. Accommodate different formats of measures including: comma, currency, percent, standard and text. READ THIS BOOK TO: Take the mystery out of the Balanced Scorecard, save precious time and money by using the included Microsoft Access database to get started, and learn new Microsoft Access database skills.« less