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How Small Biz Finance Teams can Improve Cash Flow and Risk Mitigation with Melissa Houston
On this podcast, APQC’s Mercy Harper and Megan McCulloch talk with Melissa Houston, a financial strategist for CEOs and founder of the Business Society, about how small…
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Cost categories provide a fine-grained view of process spending that leaders can use to identify potential savings or improvement opportunities more easily. In this article,…
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Shared service centers (SSCs) provide a centralized team that carries out high-volume, repeatable processes on behalf of business units or areas across an enterprise. But not…
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What Data Management Means for the Business
Organizations often approach data management as a purely technical problem to be solved by data scientists and through expensive new technologies. For Dan French, data…
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Unpacking Days Payable Outstanding
Liquidity and cash flow are critical for an organization’s ability to pay its operating expenses, especially in moments of significant disruption like a recession or global…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Mercy Harper and Megan McCulloch talk with Dan French, CEO of Consider Solutions, about what finance data management really is and why it’s so…
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Duplicate or erroneous payments in AP can add up to substantial monetary loses, along with the lost time and resources an organization will expend trying to correct…
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Three-fourths of respondents to APQC’s annual Financial Management Priorities survey ranked process improvement as the top priority for their finance functions in 2022. In…
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On this podcast, APQC’s Mercy Harper and Megan McCulloch talk with Dan French, CEO of Consider Solutions, about how finance professionals can improve processes in 2022. …
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Focusing on Finance Talent with Dan French
On this podcast, APQC’s Mercy Harper and Megan McCulloch talk with Dan French, CEO of Consider Solutions, about why finance professionals are focused on acquiring and…
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More than a third of respondents to APQC’s annual Financial Management Priorities survey (36 percent) said that finance talent management is a top priority for the finance…
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Systems 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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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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APQC and the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) examined how 177 organizations are managing and improving their end-to-end order-to-cash (O2C) processes during turbulent…
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APQC’s Order-to-Cash: Best Practices Report provides a best practices for optimizing O2C through strategy and structure, people, process, technology, and measurement…
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