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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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Finance Analytics: Building High-performance Structure, Tools, and Teams
Analytics has become an essential competency for today’s finance teams. This white paper summarizes key findings from a recent APQC study to understand more about what’s…
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Understanding Customer Profitability
Understanding customer profitability can be a complicated undertaking for any organization—especially one that has multiple lines of business. This article gleans insights…
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2019 Financial Management Webinars
APQC's financial management (FM) group hosts regular webinars featuring both internal experts discussing APQC's research and findings and external corporate FM thought…
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FP&A in 2020: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In an APQC webinar, FP&A thought leader Brian Kalish (founder of Kalish Consulting) discussed four trends for finance and FP&A in particular for the next year based on…
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A Primer on Cost Variance Analysis
Cost variance analysis, an analysis of significant differences between budgeted and actual costs and the factors behind these differences, can provide some interesting…
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Actionable Profitability Analytics
In contrast to traditional accounting in the general ledger, which can be rigid and two-dimensional, actionable profitability analytics allows an organization to track and…
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This article summarizes a Q&A with APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland (principal research lead, process and performance management) as part of a recent Argyle Forum webinar. In the…
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In July of 2019, APQC spoke with FP&A expert Brian Kalish, principal and founder at Kalish Consulting, to gather his insights as part of the Finance Data Analytics: Building…
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Preparing for the Next Level of Financial Planning and Analysis
APQC and AFP conducted recent research to determine the current state of FP&A as a discipline, understand the characteristics of FP&A at leading organizations, and identify…
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Building the Future of FP&A on a Strong Foundation: SME Insights from Peloton Consulting Group
In March 2019, APQC interviewed Philip Peck, VP of finance transformation and advisory services at Peloton Consulting Group. As an expert with over 30 years of experience in…