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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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Reports & White Papers|
Blueprint for Success: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Second Edition)
The realm of planning and management accounting is a top priority. CFOs want to speed up workflows, control process costs, leverage talent, improve the precision of forecasts…
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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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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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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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Forecasting Fundamentals
Forecasting is a process that leverages trend analysis along with past and present data to make predictions about the potential future course of the business. A well-designed…
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Forecasting Fumbles
Financial forecasting plays a pivotal role in positioning a company for growth and sustainability. A rolling forecast is a financial planning and forecasting approach that…
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Cycle Time to Prepare the Financial Forecast
Financial forecasting is a high priority for CFOs, and doing it more efficiently and accurately is an admirable goal. Whether an organization creates a comprehensive forecast…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Automation and Software - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Agile Methodology - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Sustainability - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Total Cost of Budgeting and Forecasting
Plans, budgets, and forecasts can be some of the most valuable contributions that finance makes to the business. Ideally, they help organizations know what’s coming down the…
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Tools & Templates|
Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Glossary of Terms
APQC created this glossary of terms for those interested in corporate planning, budgeting, and forecasting by explaining key terms used throughout corporate finance.
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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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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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Planning and Management Accounting: Process and Data Maturity - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…