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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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Reviewing and editing draft after draft of your budget can be time consuming, frustrating, and may even risk disengagement from your stakeholders. In this article, we’ll…
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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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The time it takes to close the books each quarter, deliver performance reports to the board, and prepare official financial statements and release earnings to the…
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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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Organizations use journal entries to provide a record of every business transaction in their accounting books. While automated entries are typically imported from an internal…
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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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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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A well-designed and well-maintained Chart of Accounts (COA) enables consistency and accuracy in reporting, provides structure for managing global business in a uniform way,…
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Cycle Time to Perform the Monthly Close
In this article, APQC reviews cross-industry data on the cycle time to perform the monthly close and highlights some strategies for a faster close. When fewer days are…
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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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Number of Accounts in the Chart of Accounts
The Chart of Accounts (COA) is a key accounting tool used for transaction processing, accounting activities, reconciliations, and financial reporting. A COA with too many…
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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…