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When leaders hear the phrase ‘process improvement,’ it makes sense that technologies like automation or generative AI might come to mind. However, management accounting…
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This collection contains APQC's Key Benchmarks at a Glance reports for several functions and processes. These documents feature key performance indicators (KPIs) and…
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Expense Reimbursement Key Benchmarks
Prepared using APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in Accounts Payable and Expense Reimbursement, these articles highlight Key Performance Indicator (KPI) benchmarks for…
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Financial Management Blueprints for Success
Blueprints for Success are comprehensive reports that are great starting points for following financial management innovators. These reports include: frameworks for financial…
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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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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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Three Ways to Release Your Earnings Faster
In this article, APQC CFO Perry Wiggins discusses the cycle time in days between the completion of an organization’s consolidated financial statements and the release of the…
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Financial reporting provides critical business intelligence that helps organizations to drive investment, secure credit, maintain compliance, and more. While the financial…
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Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: General Accounting and Reporting
The APQC Open Standards Benchmarking® measure list concisely displays all of the measures currently available for a specific survey. These measures are organized by research…
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Reviewing and editing draft after draft of your budget can be time consuming, frustrating, and may even risk disengagement from your stakeholders. In this article, we’ll…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Government/Military Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Industrial Products Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Healthcare Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Insurance Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Media and Entertainment Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…