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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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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This infographic focuses on the percentage of approved capital projects considered within or on budget, as reported in APQC's Planning and Management Accounting Survey.
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Capital projects often require significant investments of an organization’s finances, time, human capital, and other resources. When capital projects go off the rails and…
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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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Articles|
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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In this article, we review six productivity measures for finance that small organizations can use to measure and track the health of their finance function:total cost to…
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Average Tenure of FP&A Employees
In a competitive labor market, leading organizations stand out for their ability to retain finance employees longer than their peers. Based on data from our Planning and…
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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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6 Productivity KPIs Finance Teams Need to Track
APQC surveyed more than 300 professionals to learn about the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape finance functions in 2024. APQC found that many…
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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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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…
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Every organization should undertake a regular audit of its financial policies and procedures. Finance teams that can run these reviews in an efficient way can get back to the…
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Total Cost to Manage Financial Policies and Procedures
Every organization should undertake a regular audit of its financial policies and procedures. Finance teams that can run these reviews in an efficient way can get back to the…
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Reports & White Papers|
Planning and Management Accounting: Agile Methodology - 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…