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?
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.
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.
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.
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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 4,000 standardized measures spanning people, process, and technology, our Open Standards Benchmarking gives you an accurate, validated assessment of your organization.
APQC Research
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.
Explore These FM Resources
2026 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges
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Reports & White Papers
2026 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges: Navigating the Growing Pains of Digital Finance -
Data and Measures
2026 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges: Region Comparison -
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Finance Function Priorities in 2026: Digital Transformation Continues to Lead Finance Agenda -
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Financial Management: Top Priorities and Trends 2026
Financial Management Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry
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Data and Measures
Finance Shared Services Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry -
Data and Measures
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry -
Data and Measures
Customer Credit and Invoicing Key Benchmarks: Cross-Industry -
Data and Measures
Accounts Payable Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry -
Data and Measures
Accounts Receivable Key Benchmarks: Cross-Industry -
Data and Measures
Expense Reimbursement Key Benchmarks: Cross-Industry
Cash Flow
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Reports & White Papers
Cash Flow Management: Strategies, Technologies, and Talent for the Future -
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Cash Flow and Liquidity Management Practices Report: Cross Industry -
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Closing Cash Flow Skills Gaps: A Practical Finance–HR Partnership Playbook -
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Prioritizing Cash Flow Management in 2026 -
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Technology and Automation in Cash Flow Forecasting Report: Cross Industry -
Reports & White Papers
Talent and Workforce Trends in Cash Flow Management Report: Cross Industry
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Automation Trends in the Finance Function
General Accounting and Reporting
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General Accounting and Reporting Practices: Cross Industry Report -
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Building and Maintaining a Standardized Chart of Accounts -
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Cycle Time from the Completion of the Quarterly Close to the Release of Earnings -
Infographics
Number of Accounts in the Chart of Accounts