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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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As organizations increasingly embrace a process-focused operating model, end-to-end global process owners (GPOs) have become a key role in the management and development of…
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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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As countries begin to lift their pandemic restrictions and business leaders look toward post-COVID business models, it’s important to ask whether the investments you made in…
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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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Data Visualization in Accounting
This article shares insights from Danielle Supkis Cheek, a lecturer at Rice University and director in the entrepreneurial advisory services group for the accounting…
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A Primer on Cost Variance Analysis
Cost variance analysis, an analysis of significant differences between budgeted and actual costs and the factors behind these differences, can provide some interesting…
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Developing Impactful Financial Reports
Finance professionals play a critical role in businesses by making sense of financial data and reporting financial results to leadership and other key stakeholders. How can…
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Although general accounting is a subset of the finance function, improvements to general accounting processes can make a decisive impact on the cost, quality, and efficiency…
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APQC's Blueprint for Success: General Accounting and Reporting can help organizations looking for ways to achieve superior performance. This report overview discusses the key…
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Activity Value Management® (AVM) is a costing and performance management approach that can help finance teams gain a much more accurate and holistic view of the business. In…
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APQC interviewed Liz Feltman, BlackLine Practice Lead at SandPoint Consulting, to discuss how organizations can advance their accounting processes, the ways technology can…