Please join us for the IMA Boston Chapter and Performance Management SIG: Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts on November 04, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST
This session will focus on
Field of Study: Performance Management
CPE being offered: 1
Speaker:
Gary Cokins, CPIM
Founder/Author, Analytics-Based Performance Management Advisory Firm
Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) improvement methods and business analytics. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial engineering and operations research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA with honors from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.
Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC Link-Belt Corporation and then served as an FMC division Financial Controller and Operations Manager. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then in 1988 with KPMG consulting. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of HP. From 1997 until 2013 Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a leading provider of business analytics software.
His three most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics, Predictive Business Analytics andSupply Chain Costingand Performance Management. His books are published by John Wiley & Sons.