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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 Management Blueprints for Success
Blueprints for Success are comprehensive reports that are great starting points for following financial management innovators. These reports include: frameworks for financial…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in planning and management accounting, these documents highlight financial management planning and management…
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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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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 Practice Spotlights
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views. But APQC members always want to gain a sense of how relevant peers…
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APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views. But APQC members always want to gain a sense of how relevant peers…
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APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views. But APQC members always want to gain a sense of how relevant peers…
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APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views. But APQC members always want to gain a sense of how relevant peers…
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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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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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APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views. But APQC members always want to gain a sense of how relevant peers…
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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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Cycle Time to Complete the Annual Budget
For many organizations, budgeting season means headaches, delays, frustration, and grandstanding across multiple budgetary drafts. But the creation of your annual budget does…