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Product Cost System Development Services

Are you selling more products, but not reaping higher profits? Are you profitable products becoming “loss leaders?” Has you overhead gone out of control? Has your organization grown into a multi-product producer, but not your accounting system?  Are variances all over the map? Then you need more than another accountant, you need the services of the product cost specialists at The ARC Consulting Group. We are not just accountants, but a firm of seasoned, experienced financial and business professionals that bring a unique service to your company.

Not Only the "What" of Cost, but the "Why"!

Our Product Cost System Development team is committed to assist you identify the true cost of production. Through our unique approach, we can rapidly identify the key drivers of overhead, identify unique work centers, and rapidly determine each product’s actual profitability.  We then work with your operational and financial management teams to develop turnkey solutions. In short, we teach you what we know.

Our Range of Services

  • Product Cost Information System Development
  • Enhanced Variance Reporting Structures
  • Activity-Based Cost System Design, Development and Implementation
  • Interface with your current Enterprise and Accounting System software
  • Enhanced Shop-Floor Reporting

We will transform you Cost system from a "Tally and Report" accounting system into a powerful strategic Weapon.

Who We Are

The ARC Consulting Group, Inc. (ARC) is an internationally recognized, multifaceted profit enhancement firm. We provide audit and consultative resources to the international business community. Established in 1988, ARC combines expertise from accounting, auditing, sales and marketing, executive management, and information technology to bring our clients cooperative solutions.

The Mission of ARC is to assist our clients realize their strategic objectives and goals.  We provide value-added professional services to our clients, associated organizations, and individuals whom we serve.  We are internationally recognized as a leading provider of custom-tailored audit, financial and executive management professional services.

We measure the success of ARC through the success of our client organizations, and their employees. ARC evaluates every individual and associated organization, which works with ARC based on their ability to assist in our client’s business goal achievement. That is why every engagement is custom-tailored to meet the specific objectives of the client.

What We Do

Our Product Cost System Development Team defines your true manufacturing process flows. We identify the unique events that make you spend money. We are committed to “Profit Enhancement”, not just rampant cost cutting.  We analyze the causes of overhead; how your conversion processes consume overhead; and the benefit each product receives.

Then, rather than just allocated it better, we envision changes to eliminate the need for overhead. We provide you will future-looking, profit enhancing recommendations that your team can implement.

We believe that only by helping the employees of our clients to incorporate the total vision of the organization into their day-to-day activities, can those employees be empowered to assist the organization achieve its long-range goals and mission. This is the commitment of employee involvement that we bring to every engagement.

We believe that our audit services must be driven to assist the key members of your organization achieve the components of their value plan. In every engagement we:

  • Understand your firm's strategic and value objectives
  • Identify the events that affect your processes, both directly and indirectly
  • Define the specific products and customers of your key processes
  • Perform risk-based evaluations of those key processes
  • Provide workable, profit-based solutions on a cooperative basis with your key personnel

How We Are Unique

Our approach is unique. We don't use your organization to train our professional staff.  Every member of our professional staff has more than 10 years of direct experience in their respective field of specialization. They have well known reputations for their accomplishments as industry leaders, educators, and consultants.  Together, we provide our clients with consultative services that focus on developing solutions that enhance long-term shareholder value.  The backgrounds of our staff include audit, accounting, engineering, sales and marketing, information technology, product costing, strategic outsourcing, activity-based costing, strategic management, and tactical decision-making.

If you would like to discuss how our Product Cost System Development team can address your profitability concerns, or an analysis of the current system of fraud prevention controls email Mr. Richard T. Balog,CPA, CIA, CGFM, DACFE, or call at 904-268-1148, today for a free, no-obligation consultation. We will show you how our forensic audit team can put and keep your business on solid ground. Click here for our Forensic Audit Services Fact Sheet.

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Alternative Fee Structure Arrangements
At ARC we ensure your success. We prefer performance-based and fixed-price arrangements. We are the experts, let us take the risk. The table below lists the typical types of forensic consulting arrangements ARC offers our clients. All of ARC's active clients receive free unlimited phone support.

ARC Consulting Alternative Fee Arrangements
Performance-Based

ARC will work with you to identify the specific objectives of the job. We'll develop a business case to determine the profit-enhancement benefit of our services. You pay us based on our performance toward the business case.

Fixed-Price ARC prefers a fixed-price arrangement. If you can clearly define the objectives of the job, we'll offer a fixed-price agreement. If you'd like help defining the products or services, we can fix-price that service also. You pay us only upon your acceptance of the products.
Time & Expense When you're not quite sure what you need, or you just need some additional expertise, ARC offers competitive hourly rates — and we don't gouge you by billing for travel time.

Our Nine-Step Methodology ensures that your project will be completed on time, on budget, and yield the desired results.

Our Staff

The professional staff of ARC brings more than 100 years of combined financial, forensic, legal, operations, technology, project management, and executive management "hands-on" experience. We have successfully investigated frauds and helped many organizations who have faced challenges similar to yours.

Every consultant assigned to your engagement will bring in excess of 10 years of hands-on experience in your industry dealing with your issues. Unlike other firms, you don't have to train our professionals. We are the experts. We train the profesionals that other firms hire.

 

     
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