Resource Library
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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Digital Transformation of the Finance Function: Cross-Industry Practices Report
APQC conducts ongoing research on the finance function to help organizations benchmark and assess the performance of their own finance functions against other organizations…
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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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Drivers of Effective Finance Analytics
Analytics is an increasingly important part of finance’s role as strategic business partner, helping derive key business insights and support better decision making by…
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Finance Analytics Skills, Training, and Development
Analytics is an increasingly important part of finance’s role as strategic business partner, helping derive key business insights and support better decision making by…
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Finance Analytics Structure, Maturity, and Practices
Analytics is an increasingly important part of finance’s role as strategic business partner, helping derive key business insights and support better decision making by…
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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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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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FP&A Tools, Technologies, and Analytics
APQC and the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently undertook a research project to determine the current state of FP&A as an emergent discipline, to…
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Measuring FP&A Effectiveness
Ultimately, FP&A is tasked with serving as a partner to the business and helping business leaders make better decisions by leveraging an analysis of financial information. In…
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Scope and Practices of FP&A
APQC and the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently undertook a research project to determine the current state of FP&A as an emergent discipline, to…