Financial Management
With APQC’s extensive and up-to-date resources for Financial Management (FM), you can make sure your financial process improvement programs are delivering business results. Get authoritative guidance on essential financial management topics, including finance talent management, financial shared services, and finance transformation. Or find key benchmarks to see how your organization’s processes for payables, receivables, payroll, and other critical finance business processes are performing compared to your peers.
What Makes APQC your Essential Resource for Financial Management?
TIMELY AND TOPICAL
Through regular conversations with industry leaders and members, we identify the most pressing FM topics of the day. We focus our research and projects accordingly.
AN EXTENSIVE AND EVER-EXPANDING REPOSITORY OF RESEARCH-BASED FM RESOURCES
Our Resource Library includes FM best practices, case studies, KPIs, and tools and templates. Find the information you need to learn about, implement, maintain, and improve your FM programs.
RESOURCES AND EXPERTISE TO SUPPORT YOU AT EVERY STAGE
For each stage of your FM program’s lifecycle – from planning through governance to measurement– you’ll find tailored information and tools. Get blueprints, best practices, and benchmarks to ensure your program’s success.
Featured FM Resources
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Delivering Treasury Success in the Next Normal
APQC conducted an online survey, gathering data from more than 200 treasury practitioners across industries and regions. This collection curates content from this new study, featuring over 200 participants from across industries.
Speed to Insight at the Speed of Thought
This article summarizes a recent APQC webinar with Brian Kalish (Principal, Kalish Consulting) about how organizations can grow their data and analytics maturity to deliver deeper, more effective insights.
Total Uncollectable Balances as a Percentage of Revenue
This measure is part of a set of Process Efficiency measures that help companies optimize their "manage and process collections" process by minimizing waste and refining resource consumption.
Are your finance improvement programs delivering business results?
Identify performance gaps and see exactly where you stand compared to your peers, using Open Standards Benchmarking and other APQC resources for FM.
APQC provides a variety of KPIs, performance measures, and other essential resources to show you how your organization can reach best-practice performance levels in financial management. With more than 1,500 standardized measures spanning people, process, and technology, our Open Standards Benchmarking gives you an accurate, validated assessment of your organization.
Explore These FM Resources
Finance Function
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Building a Best-in-Class Finance Function (Best Practices Report) -
The Missing Ingredient to Change Management in the Finance Function -
Ten Characteristics Shared Among Best-in-Class Finance Functions: Lessons from a Transforming Field -
Building a Best-in-Class Finance Function: Discovery Communications Inc. Case Study
APQC’s articles and benchmarks give us a good reference of the processes and best practices by other companies, so we gain certainty that our process is moving in the right direction.
