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Corporate Allocation Model

BMB Data was the lead System Integrator at Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in Ottawa, Canada during the creation of their cost analytics unit and implementation of various cost analytics and reporting capabilities.

When the Treasury Board Secretariat introduced the need for departments to report on the full cost of program operations, CRA needed to develop a methodology and system for the allocation of it’s corporate costs to it’s program operations. As an Agency accountable to a Board of Directors, it needed to adopt an approach consistent with recognized Management Accounting principles and Treasury Board guidelines and thus adopted Activity Based Costing (ABC) as the underlying principle. BMB Data developed an implemented an ABC system that integrated financial and non-financial data to support the allocation of corporate costs to the programs, as well as to development a principles, methodology and system development guide for other departments to use in developing their corporate allocation models. This system has been in operation since 2006.

BMB Data has continued to play a key role in facilitating CRA’s adoption of advanced cost management techniques as it develops new model’s to support the costing of their programs and various corporate support units.

Outcomes:

Implementation of Corporate Allocation Model at CRA
Development of Corporate Allocation Model methods and principles for TBS
Development of more advanced cost analytic capabilities at CRA