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This infographic focuses on the percentage of approved capital projects considered within or on budget, as reported in APQC's Planning and Management Accounting Survey.
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Capital projects often require significant investments of an organization’s finances, time, human capital, and other resources. When capital projects go off the rails and…
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Performing a Financial Evaluation of New Products
Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this infographic discusses the measure “cycle time in days to perform a financial evaluation of…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in planning and management accounting, these documents highlight financial management planning and management…
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Financial Evaluation of New Products
How long does it take your finance team to perform financial evaluations for new products? Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this…
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Data visualization is a powerful enhancement to financial and managerial reporting. Done well, data visualization can make complex trends intelligible for non-finance…
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In this article, we review six productivity measures for finance that small organizations can use to measure and track the health of their finance function:total cost to…
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2024 Financial Management Priorities
APQC conducted its annual survey of finance professionals to explore the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges APQC members and customers are addressing in 2024. Topics…
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Getting Customer Payments More Quickly
Through its annual Financial Management Priorities survey, APQC found that late payments from customers are one of the most common cash flow management challenges facing…
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Finance in Focus: Priorities for 2024
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2023 to better understand the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape…
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Average Tenure of FP&A Employees
In a competitive labor market, leading organizations stand out for their ability to retain finance employees longer than their peers. Based on data from our Planning and…
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Sales forecasting is a discipline that any strong finance team will want to master and is especially important in industries where the majority of an organization’s operating…
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Percentage Error for the Total Sales Forecast
Sales forecasting is a discipline that any strong finance team will want to master and is especially important in industries where the majority of an organization’s operating…
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Strategies to Avoid a Cash Flow Crunch
Through its annual Financial Management Priorities survey, APQC found that late payments from customers are one of the most common cash flow management challenges facing…
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Strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts are key tools in making informed—and advantageous—decisions, so they are logical and rewarding organizational starting points for…
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