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.
Looking for something specific?
Ask us-
Articles|
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…
-
Articles|
Three Ways to Release Your Earnings Faster
In this article, APQC CFO Perry Wiggins discusses the cycle time in days between the completion of an organization’s consolidated financial statements and the release of the…
-
Financial reporting provides critical business intelligence that helps organizations to drive investment, secure credit, maintain compliance, and more. While the financial…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Tools & Templates|
General Accounting and Financial Reporting Glossary
APQC created this glossary of terms for those interested or involved in general accounting and financial reporting. Those engaged in benchmarking may also visit APQC’s more…
-
Tools & Templates|
Interactive General Accounting Tune-up Diagnostic
Examine the essential metrics to ensure that your practices will keep you ahead of the competition. APQC's Interactive General Accounting Tune-up Diagnostic highlights Open…
-
Tools & Templates|
Interactive Financial Reporting Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking General Accounting and Reporting survey, this interactive diagnostic in excel can help you compare your financial…
-
Articles|
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…
-
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,…
-
Articles|
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…
-
Tools & Templates|
Accounting Checklist for Closing Out the Month
To assist organizations when performing the month-end, or soft, closing, APQC has created a month-end closing checklist that contains common tasks performed to ensure the…