Hugues Boisvert offers a unique dashboard and budget for small and medium-size businesses

August 28, 2013

HBoisvert_publication_PMEProfessor Hugues Boisvert (Accounting) recently launched Gérer la performance financière de la PME, published by Éditions JFD. The book offers the heads of small and medium-size businesses an original version of two financial management tools essential for any business: a dashboard and a budget.

“These two tools may be well known, but they are often ill-adapted to the very specific context in which small and medium-size businesses find themselves when it comes to making decisions,” Professor Boisvert points out. “Yet, these businesses have to constantly innovate in order to remain original and competitive. They must also be administered both efficiently and effectively and for that they need simplified, inexpensive management tools to help them in their decision making.”

The dashboard outlined in the new book is designed to give the heads of small and medium-size businesses financial indicators that correspond to their priorities. The budget is integrated with the recording of earnings, adding unrivalled flexibility to adjust cash flow to changing plans. Accounting, cash management and decision making can all be synchronized with these specially adapted tools.

Professor Boisvert, FCPA, FCMA, has a PhD in Engineering Economic Systems and a Master’s in Operations Research from Stanford University, in California, and an undergraduate degree in commerce (Management Sciences) from HEC Montréal. He has been with the School since June 1976. He took one year off in 1985 to launch Les Entreprises M.B.H. inc. and the Val Saint-Côme downhill ski centre. He is Director of the CPA International Research Centre in Management Control. His specialties are accounting by activities, management controls, management by activities and benchmarking. He has written several publications and is very active professionally, including with Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada).

 

Gérer la performance financière de la PME, by Hugues Boisvert, Éditions JFD, April 2013, 105 pages. Available at COOP HEC Montréal.


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