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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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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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Becoming an Effective Finance Business Partner
Business stakeholders have always needed a key point of contact within finance to provide answers and guidance. As the importance of data-based decisions has grown and the…
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Like other support areas such as HR and IT, the Finance department in many organizations has evolved in recent years to take on a more strategic role in helping reach…
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The level of cost-creep (the gradual build-up over time in the cost/revenue ratio) in enterprise accounting and financial reporting is hard to tolerate for CFOs and…
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The number of employees that it takes to execute a process is often a key indicator of process health and efficiency. In this article, APQC reviews cross industry data for…
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Preparing Finance Reports for the Board
In many organizations, the board of directors is responsible for setting policies that ensure the financial health of the organization, verifying financial standing, and…
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Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting
APQC conducted a survey to help understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting and how finance functions are leveraging data…
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Period-end management reports are an important form of decision-making support that helps leaders gain insight on specific areas of the business. These reports typically…
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General Accounting and Reporting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in general accounting and reporting, this collection features key performance indicators (KPIs) for general…
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Perfecting the Virtual Close
The compiling of financial data and closing of the books by the finance function at the end of each year, quarter, month, or even day is a critical process for organizational…
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Turning Financial Data into Actionable Insights: Perspectives from Author and SME Dave Paradi
The goal of financial reporting is to help executives and other leaders make better business decisions. Unfortunately, many finance professionals fall short of this goal by…
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In late 2019, APQC conducted research to understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting, in particular how finance functions…
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Making Sense of Data in Finance
This article summarizes insights from author and forecasting SME Steve Morlidge, Ph.D., based on his new book Present Sense, to discuss fundamental concepts, effective…
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Data Visualization in Accounting
This article shares insights from Danielle Supkis Cheek, a lecturer at Rice University and director in the entrepreneurial advisory services group for the accounting…