Resource Library
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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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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Now in the Resource Library: Financial Management
This report provides an overview of recently released financial management content in APQC's Resource Library, along with upcoming research and financial management resources…
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Particularly among small and medium-sized organizations, late customer payments are increasingly impeding cashflow management, negatively affecting strategic decision making,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…