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APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Total Cost to Manage Financial Policies and Procedures
Every organization should undertake a regular audit of its financial policies and procedures. Finance teams that can run these reviews in an efficient way can get back to the…
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Building a Workplace Culture that Values Time Off
This infographic presents cross-industry data on the number of vacation days per year per employee that organizations offer and provides guidance for how you can build a…
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You Might Have Too Many HR Administrative FTEs
When organizations are looking to cut costs and improve margins, headcount is often one of the first places that leaders scrutinize. But headcount reductions can easily…
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Applying Governance and Roles to End-to-End Processes
As organizations increasingly structure their operations around end-to-end processes, the concept of global process owners (GPOs) has become key in managing business…
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Total Cost of Budgeting and Forecasting
This infographic focuses on the median total cost of budgeting and forecasting, across industries, as reported in APQC's Planning and Management Accounting survey.
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Number of Budget Versions Produced Before Final Approval
Reviewing and editing draft after draft of your budget can be time consuming, frustrating, and may even risk disengagement from your stakeholders. This infographic…
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Eliminating Adjustments Bottlenecks
Adjustments come about for perfectly understandable reasons. In some cases, customers might find that there was a mistake in their billing or that an order is delivered with…
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Improving your organization’s performance of AP processes year-over-year is all well and good, but is it good enough relative to other organizations? Benchmarking against…
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Benefits and Challenges of Hiring In-House Talent
This infographic reviews cross-industry data on the percentage of positions filled by internal candidates, provides benchmarking guidance to help you better assess your…
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Establishing the Daily Cash Position
Each month, APQC features a showcased metric (cost, productivity, efficiency, cycle time, or supplemental) from our Open Standards Benchmarking® financial management research…
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Who Are the People of Process?
Process management is aimed at defining a process, establishing responsibilities, evaluating process performance, and identifying opportunities for improvement. This goal for…
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Cycle Time to Complete the Annual Budget
For many organizations, budgeting season means headaches, delays, frustration, and grandstanding across multiple budgetary drafts. But the creation of your annual budget does…
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Boosting New Employee Retention
Every organization is going to experience at least some voluntary turnover from new employees, and the reasons why it happens are not always within an organization’s control…
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Challenges Faced with Adopting a Process Framework
Although the benefits of process frameworks are numerous, they are not without their challenges. Most frameworks require some modifications to account for differences in…
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A Smaller IT Headcount is Not Necessarily Better
When organizations are looking to cut costs and improve margins, headcount is often one of the first places that leaders scrutinize. When it comes to IT, however,…
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