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Digitization is critical for building a future-ready finance function. In the context of a shared service center (SSC), digitization enables an organization to pay suppliers,…
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Percentage of Employees with Less than One Year of Tenure
The percentage of employees with less than one year of tenure is a measure that can help provide a current snapshot of your workforce as you work to strike an ideal ratio…
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Highly-trained, knowledgeable, and well-tenured staff are some of the most important assets a business can have. At the same time, leading organizations also recognize the…
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Do You Need a Fractional CFO?
APQC interviewed Melissa Houston, CPA, business coach and founder of The Business Society website and podcast, to discuss fractional CFOs, what they do, and why having one…
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Order-to-Cash: Top Performers Do It Differently
APQC and the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) collaborated on an in-depth examination of how organizations are handling and improving their end-to-end order-to-cash (O2C…
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Finance FTEs per $1 Billion in Revenue
Calculating and benchmarking the total number of full time-equivalent employees (FTEs) in the finance function is a good way to get a quick snapshot of finance function…
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APQC’s 2022 Financial Management Priorities Survey identified cash flow and risk as top priorities for financial professionals and revealed that small business teams have…
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Cost categories provide a fine-grained view of process spending that leaders can use to identify potential savings or improvement opportunities more easily. In this article,…
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Shared service centers (SSCs) provide a centralized team that carries out high-volume, repeatable processes on behalf of business units or areas across an enterprise. But not…
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Shared service centers (SSCs) provide a centralized team that carries out high-volume, repeatable processes on behalf of business units or areas across an enterprise. But not…
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What Data Management Means for the Business
Organizations often approach data management as a purely technical problem to be solved by data scientists and through expensive new technologies. For Dan French, data…
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Unpacking Days Payable Outstanding
Liquidity and cash flow are critical for an organization’s ability to pay its operating expenses, especially in moments of significant disruption like a recession or global…
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Duplicate or erroneous payments in AP can add up to substantial monetary loses, along with the lost time and resources an organization will expend trying to correct…
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Three-fourths of respondents to APQC’s annual Financial Management Priorities survey ranked process improvement as the top priority for their finance functions in 2022. In…
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Finance Talent is a Priority for 2022
APQC surveyed more than 300 professionals to learn about the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape finance functions in 2022. We found that talent…
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