About Ross Maynard
Ross Maynard is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and Managing Director of Ideas2Action Process Excellence Ltd. He has worked as a consultant and trainer for over 20 years, specialising in finance processes, management information and performance measurement.
Ross believes in inspiring, challenging and supporting change. He supports organisations to understand their processes; facilitates improvement teams; and supports staff to work together as a team to deliver tangible and sustainable improvements.
He has extensive practical experience of providing process improvement support, specialising in management information and performance measurement; mapping and analysing process performance; facilitating in-house improvement teams; and delivering related training and development activities.
What Makes Ross Tick?
Ross is passionate about inspiring, challenging and supporting change through helping organisations with their processes and people.
CPD Courses
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Cost Management: Engaging with Uncertainty
Discover how agile cost management strategies can help you navigate uncertainty, uncover hidden opportunities, and build lasting value across your organisation. -
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Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
Consumers, employees and major investors are increasingly choosing climate friendly brands. This course explains how a rigorous approach to carbon performance management will enable you to measure your organisation’s carbon emissions and understand how to manage and reduce your carbon footprint. -
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Making Monthly Reports Worth Reading
World class finance functions produce monthly reports that managers actually read. This course enables you to delight your audience by setting clear objectives, creating compelling visuals and creating monthly reports that drive business improvement.
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Building a Spreadsheet Forecasting Model
This course explains how to build and operate spreadsheets for forecasting, planning and business models. It’s a practical guide, which takes a step-by-step approach to building, utilising and maintaining models.
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Agile Accounting and Business Planning
This course explores the fundamental principles of the Agile Manifesto and demonstrates how they can streamline your processes, without compromising quality or increasing risk. You will learn how to implement a framework that applies agile methodology to all your accounting practices, including month-end reporting, business planning, forecasting and decision making.
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Financial Modelling: Business Simulation
Updated for 2024. Did you know Excel can be used to model potential business situations? In this course, you can learn the basics of business simulation in Excel, along with how to create financial models to aid decision making.
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Lean Process Improvement
Lean centres on encouraging skilled and motivated people across the organisation to work together to improve the efficiency of processes. Understand the concepts at the heart of the lean philosophy, and consider its application within your organisation. -
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Key Performance Indicators
What makes good KPIs and how do you create them? This course will take you through the foundations and support KPIs need to ensure they are reliable and measurable.
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Business Performance Management
Business Performance Management (BPM) is a powerful tool but making it work for your organisation can be difficult. This course explains the essentials of BPM, and shows how data analysis, effective structures and problem solving contribute to improving performance.