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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Fixed Asset Accounting Practices Survey Summary Report
APQC conducts ongoing Open Standards Benchmarking® survey research to help organizations benchmark and improve their processes. The research gathers metric data (cost,…
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Maximizing tax savings through accurate depreciation deductions is an easy way CFOs can ensure a finance organization is doing everything it can to manage costs and protect…
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Haphazard decisions about how promptly to pay bills can damage strategic relationships and cause organizations to miss out on business or investment opportunities. Finding…
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When leaders hear the phrase ‘process improvement,’ it makes sense that technologies like automation or generative AI might come to mind. However, management accounting…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Getting Customer Payments More Quickly
Through its annual Financial Management Priorities survey, APQC found that late payments from customers are one of the most common cash flow management challenges facing…
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Finance in Focus: Priorities for 2024
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2023 to better understand the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape…
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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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Strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts are key tools in making informed—and advantageous—decisions, so they are logical and rewarding organizational starting points for…