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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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Performing a Financial Evaluation of New Products
Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this infographic discusses the measure “cycle time in days to perform a financial evaluation of…
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Reports & White Papers|
Blueprint for Success: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Second Edition)
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 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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Percentage Error for the Total Sales Forecast
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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Do’s and Don’ts of Rolling Forecasts
When transitioning from a traditional budget and forecast, organizations must exercise caution to avoid certain pitfalls. This infographic explores the top 10 mistakes…
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Articles|
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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Infographics|
5 Keys to Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Success
In 2024, it's more important than ever for organizations to optimize these core processes. This infographic highlights five keys to drive success, stability, and…
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A global process owner is responsible for managing a process across the enterprise. This infographic discuss why having a single-point owner for key processes ensures…
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Technology Trends in Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
Finance functions are in a transitional period when it comes to the integration of leading-edge technologies for planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, with a fairly…
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Data and Measures|
Summary of Open Standards Benchmarking Measures: Planning and Management Accounting
The APQC Open Standards Benchmarking® measure list concisely displays all of the measures currently available for a specific survey. These measures are organized by research…
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Reports & White Papers|
Planning and Management Accounting: Automation and Software - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…