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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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Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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The Role of Technology in KM
AI and other technologies transform how people find and share knowledge in organizations. KM teams drive adoption while facing challenges such as leaders not seeing the value…
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Organizations can utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze vast amounts of data, make better decisions, and improve customer experiences. The successful implementation…
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The annual close comes during one of the heaviest workload periods of the year for accountants, as month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes converge in a…
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Finance FTEs per $1 Billion in Revenue
Calculating and benchmarking the total number of full time-equivalent employees (FTEs) in the finance function is a good way to get a quick snapshot of finance function…
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Outsourced Cost of the Finance Function
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking segments the total cost of the finance function into five categories: systems cost, personnel cost, overhead cost, outsourced cost, and…
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Does HR work for employees or the business? This article reveals how employees, who responded to APQC’s HR Customer Satisfaction survey, answered this question and explains…
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Why Satisfaction with HR Matters
There’s never been a more pressing time for HR functions to find creative ways to satisfy employees. Drawing from the results of APQC’s HR Customer Satisfaction survey, this…
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What Workers Want from HR
In this on-demand webinar, APQC's Human Capital Management Principal Research Lead, Elissa Tucker, discusses the results of APQC's HR Customer Satisfaction Survey. The survey…
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Survive and Thrive with a KM Strategy to Drive Innovation
"Innovate or die" has never been truer than it is today amid the global coronavirus-driven economic crisis. In times like these, knowledge management can be an engine that…
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Given the numerous challenges that can occur along the supply chain, from congested ports and piracy to counterfeits and retail theft, the need for organizations to track…
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2020 Education Challenges and Priorities: Survey Report
In December 2019, APQC conducted its annual priorities & challenges survey to collect information from educators across the globe in efforts to learn about trending subject…
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Guaranteed Analytics
This article gleans insights from author and consultant Jim Rushton, Managing Director, Armeta Analytics, in terms of strategies, insights, and real-world examples of why so…
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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…