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Particularly among small and medium-sized organizations, late customer payments are increasingly impeding cashflow management, negatively affecting strategic decision making,…
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Data visualization is a powerful enhancement to financial and managerial reporting. Done well, data visualization can make complex trends intelligible for non-finance…
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Successful Finance Business Partnerships
Business stakeholders have always needed a key point of contact within finance to provide answers and guidance. As the importance of data-based decisions has grown and the…
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Like other support areas such as HR and IT, the Finance department in many organizations has evolved in recent years to take on a more strategic role in helping reach…
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The level of cost-creep (the gradual build-up over time in the cost/revenue ratio) in enterprise accounting and financial reporting is hard to tolerate for CFOs and…
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The number of employees that it takes to execute a process is often a key indicator of process health and efficiency. In this article, APQC reviews cross industry data for…
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Cycle Time to Produce Period-End Management Reports
Period-end management reports are an important form of decision-making support that helps leaders gain insight on specific areas of the business. These reports typically…
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Preparing Finance Reports for the Board
In many organizations, the board of directors is responsible for setting policies that ensure the financial health of the organization, verifying financial standing, and…
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Period-end management reports are an important form of decision-making support that helps leaders gain insight on specific areas of the business. These reports typically…
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Perfecting the Virtual Close
The compiling of financial data and closing of the books by the finance function at the end of each year, quarter, month, or even day is a critical process for organizational…
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Robotic Process Automation & The Finance Function
RPA is a promising technology for finance functions. RPA is a form of server-based process automation that combines process steps with decision models or business rules with…
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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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Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting
APQC recently conducted a research project to understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting, in particular how finance…
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Historically, financial reporting has been rife with columns of spreadsheet-based data. Today, innovative tools and technologies open new worlds in terms of data…
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APQC conducted a new research project to understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting, in particular how finance functions…