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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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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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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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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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Beyond Budgeting and Rolling Forecasts
Rolling forecasts are tools for continuous planning. Organizations don't plan based on an annual set of events, they expect to deliver continuing profitable performance. The…
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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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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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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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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…