PACE Moments

PACE Moments

Profitability Center of Excellence

Episodes 48
Avg. Duration 10m
Activity Sporadic
Since Dec 2021
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

PACE Moments and Leaders in Business, brought to you by the Profitability Analytics Center of Excellence, brings you experts and thought leaders who discuss the many aspects of corporate finance and analytics that will help organizations make better, more informed decisions. Follow us on LinkedIn https://tinyurl.com/23jeub23 and visit our website https://tinyurl.com/rc79n25b for more information.

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Recent Episodes

S1E48 PACE Moments: Inaugural Revenue Management Podcast

Jan 28, 2026 37m

Revenue management is often not as easy to define in a company as fixed and variable costs. In this podcast, Daniel Burnside hosts revenue management expert Karl Aschwanden for a discussion about…

S1E47 PACE Moments: Leaders in Business with Paulo Ribeiro

Jul 07, 2025 25m

In this podcast, we interviewed Paulo Jorge Ribeiro, CFO, OLI - SISTEMAS SANITÁRIOS, S.A. about using, profitability analytics, business intelligence, AI and other technology to improve financial…

S1E46 It's (Past) Time to Kill a Word - Allocation

May 07, 2025 4m

In this episode, Larry White explores why the word “allocation” should be eliminated from internal decision support vocabulary. He argues that true managerial costing must reflect causality—clear…

S1E45 Plans, Budgets, Forecasts, and Causality

Feb 26, 2025 5m

Many organizations treat plans, budgets, and forecasts as political tools rather than effective management instruments, often manipulating numbers to align with executive expectations rather than…

S1E44 PACE Moments: Leaders in Business with Benjamin Kofi Quansah

Feb 12, 2025 18m

In this podcast we interviewed Benjamin Kofi Quansah about "Beyond the numbers: Leadership Values of High Impact Management Accountants."We asked him:1. What does it mean to go “beyond the numbers”…

S1E43 What’s More Important: The Data or The Model?

Jan 19, 2025 4m

In this episode, Doug Hicks discusses how in profitability analytics, valid models that accurately reflect underlying economic realities are more critical than the accuracy of the data populating…

S1E42 Costing Menu or Recipe Ingredients?

Jan 19, 2025 5m

In this podcast, Doug Hicks discusses how management accounting offers numerous methodologies, each addressing specific cost-related challenges, but no single approach provides a comprehensive…

S1E41 Are You Playing Offense or Defense for Your Organization?

Jan 18, 2025 4m

In this podcast, Larry White argues that management accounting should prioritize playing an "offensive" role within organizations, focusing on driving growth and profitability by developing new…

S1E40 The Importance of Models

Aug 26, 2024 7m

In this podcast, Doug Hicks emphasizes the importance of using accurate and effective models in corporate finance to make better business decisions. It highlights that while people create models to…

S1E39 Observations on Pricing

Aug 08, 2024 8m

Doug Hicks shares his observations from over five decades of working with small and mid-sized businesses on pricing strategies. Pricing remains a top 10 business topic, but many organizations still…

S1E38 Management Accounting Insights from 1923

Jul 30, 2024 8m

In this podcast, Doug Hicks, a director at PACE, discusses a significant gap in accounting education: the lack of historical context for the ideas being taught. Hicks argues that without…

S1E36 What's More Important? Operational or Financial Metrics

Jul 22, 2024 5m

Larry White discusses the importance of operational versus financial metrics. Initially, it may seem that both are equally important, but he explores this further. In manufacturing, traditional…

S1E36 PACE Moments: Leaders in Business with Jay David

Feb 08, 2024 22m

When you are already manufacturing 5 million pounds of candy, what does it REALLY cost to produce the next pound, 1,000 pounds, or even one million pounds? In this edition of our PACE Leaders in…

S1E35 PACE Moments: Leaders in Business with Dawn Ringrose

Jan 31, 2024 32m

In this podcast, we interviewed Dawn Ringrose, Principal at Organizational Excellence Specialists. Dawn filled us in on some of the basics of Organizational Excellence. Since 2015, Organizational…

S1E34 Problem Terminology in Accounting and Business

Jan 22, 2024 5m

What does that term actually mean??Terms that are not well understood can lead to ill-considered actions.In Larry White's podcast on "Problem Terminology in Accounting and Business", he rightly…

S1E33 The Laws of Nature That Support the Profitability Analytics Framework

Nov 27, 2023 5m

Are you using the laws of man or the laws of nature in Finance and Accounting? In this podcast, Doug Hicks, CPA, tells us how causality-based revenue, operating, and investment models must be…

S1E32 Cats and Dogs and Weights

Nov 10, 2023 6m

In this NEW podcast, Doug Hicks, CPA uses an excerpt from his book “Profitable Expectations: An Accountant Rising to the Challenge” to demonstrate an important point about using weights in modeling…

S1E31 Stewards and Game Players

Oct 18, 2023 6m

In this new podcast, Doug Hicks talks about his experience with decision makers that are employed by business owners to manage their organizations falling into two major categories: those who view…

S1E30 The Scheherazade Syndrome or One Thousand and One Nights

Jun 07, 2023 6m

"The story goes that every day, Shahryar the king would marry a new virgin and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his very first…

S1E29 The spectrum of economic radiation

May 11, 2023 7m

Do you understand the entire spectrum of economic radiation or only a small part of it? In this new podcast, Doug Hicks compared advances in how we see things with only our naked eyes and then…

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