Life's been good…and easy…for most crop producers in the past seven years. Changing conditions, though, will require a new emphasis on proven farm management accounting principles aided by 21st Century technologies.
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Topics: cost accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm budgeting, farm mamanagement accounting, Dick Wittman, Farm Futures, farm cash flow projections
Chris Barron of Carson and Barron Farms and a columnist with Top Farmer Magazine, introduces encourages a proactive approach to farm margin management in the recent article, Financial Fitness for Tomorrow.
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Topics: cost accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm software, ag software, agricultural decision support, agricultural software, enterprise analysis, farm budgeting, activity-based costing, Farm Margin Management
In the past three issues of this series we’ve used a mountain range metaphor to depict the relationship between three levels of computer applications—decision support, compliance and business processes.
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Topics: farm management accounting, cost accounting, accrual accounting, farm financial reporting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm inventories, farm software, agricultural decision support, agricultural software, enterprise analysis, farm budgeting, Cost center allocation, agricultural inventories, farm benchmarks, farm cost centers, farm profit centers
“Choose your rut carefully. You’ll be in it for the next two hundred miles.”
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Topics: managerial accounting, cost accounting, farm financial statements, accrual accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm records, farm software, best practices, farm budgeting, agricultural inventories, activity-based costing, Dick Wittman
May 14, 2019
2019 Software Success Summit
Mark your calendars for Monday, August 19 through Wednesday, August 21 for the premiere software knowledge and networking event for agriculture's...
May 13, 2019
Management Accounting Automation--the "Virtuous Cycle"
(Part 6)
The following is a summary of a presentation entitled "Financial and Management Accounting Software--Developments, Implementation...
April 11, 2019
Farm Industry News Identifies Ag Accounting Trend.
If you’re struggling with a main street accounting program today, it might be time to reach out to a higher-level, farm-focused program for...
April 11, 2019
Crop Benchmarks Reveal It’s the Overhead
Do you know the difference between profit and loss based on benchmarks? Consultants discuss the benchmarks that were released during ...
April 11, 2019
Objections to Growth Path Farm Accounting
Do you know where you are on the Growth Path Decision Tree? Find out by uncovering the Step Two question.
May 14, 2019
Management Accounting Automation
(Part 5)
The following is a summary of a presentation entitled "Financial and Management Accounting Software--Developments, Implementation...
May 14, 2019
Integrating Ag Technology Data with Financial and Managerial Accounting (Part 4)
The following is a summary of a presentation entitled "Financial and Management Accounting Software--Developments, Implementation Challenges, and...
May 14, 2019
Integration Through Enterprise Resource Planning Software
The following is a summary of a presentation entitled "Financial and Management Accounting Software--Developments, Implementation Challenges, and...
May 14, 2019
"Becoming a farm CEO," an interview with Dick Wittman
| "What is the value of this kind of information if I can get it delivered to me in a more integrated fashion?" |
May 14, 2019
2019 Farm Financial Standards Guidelines Released
Menomonee Falls, WI, (Jan. 19) –An updated version of the Financial Guidelines for Agriculture has been released by the Farm Financial Standards...
May 14, 2019
Join us at the Farm Futures Business Summit
Learn new farm management and marketing skills and network with other producers from around the country at the 2019 Farm Futures Business Summit
June 11, 2019
Integrating Ag Technology Data with Financial and Managerial Accounting
The following is a summary of a presentation entitled "Financial and Management Accounting Software--Developments, Implementation Challenges, and...
April 26, 2017
Farm Industry News Identifies Ag Accounting Trend
"If you’re struggling with a main street accounting program today, it might be time to reach out to a higher-level, farm-focused program for your...
May 14, 2019
Crop Benchmarks Reveal "It's the Overhead"
That's the difference between profit and loss based on benchmarks compiled by consultants Moe Russell andJohn McNutt in the November 2015 Farm...
May 14, 2019
Objections to Growth Path Farm Accounting
A previous installmentof Growth Path Accounting covered the Step Two question, "What are your information goals?" Before we go into an in-depth...