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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…
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Consolidated financial statements enable organizations with a parent company and subordinate reporting units to report their finances as a single enterprise for creditors,…
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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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Perfecting the Virtual Close
The compiling of financial data and closing of the books by the finance function at the end of each year, quarter, month, or even day is a critical process for organizational…
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APQC’s Blueprint for Success: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Second Edition) ties together the APQC business process taxonomy—Process Classification Framework® (PCF)—…
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Based on APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® financial management and custom benchmarking research, APQC’s Leveraging Emerging Tools and Technologies for Finance series…
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Based on APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® financial management and custom benchmarking data, APQC’s Leveraging Emerging Tools and Technologies for Finance series examines…
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Fixed Asset Accounting Practices: Cross-Industry 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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Cost Accounting and Management Practices: Cross-Industry Spotlight
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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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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Making Sense of Data in Finance
This article summarizes insights from author and forecasting SME Steve Morlidge, Ph.D., based on his new book Present Sense, to discuss fundamental concepts, effective…
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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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