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Overhead Cost Reduction

Background: The business was going through a period of rapid growth and pressure was being applied to reduce overhead costs to maintain margins. The situation was made worse because this growth wasn’t forecast by sales, causing increased pressure on all departments. This meant we had to be selective on which overheads we targeted. Challenge: The…

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Cost Reduction

Background An international bank’s loans were processed by a variety of separate departments across each region, but there was no activity based costing to properly measure the profitability of each loan. Challenge There was a lack of understanding of how the different activities involved in processing loans were to interact with one another.  Further, there…

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