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Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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Invoice Processing and Greater Productivity
The practice of benchmarking is most effective when organizations measure and track key performance indicators both internally and externally. This is especially true when it…
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Challenging and chaotic business environments teach us important lessons if we are willing to learn them. There is one lesson that seems that all organizations need to keep…
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Accounts receivable (AR) is one of the most critical and high-volume processes that organizations carry out. Delays in this process mean less working capital and liquidity,…
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The total cost to invoice customers is an important KPI that measures the efficiency of your sales and accounting teams and the health of the invoicing process itself. After…
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Days Sales Outstanding
In moments of disruption like a global pandemic or an economic downturn, achieving better cash flow becomes a top concern for many organizations. In this article, APQC…
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Days Cash on Hand
Days cash on hand is a valuable liquidity metric that measures the number of days an organization can continue paying its operating expenses with the amount of cash currently…
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Invoice Resolution Shouldn't Take a Week
Invoicing errors are a waste of time for all parties. If they happen repeatedly, they also erode trust among your customers. In this article, APQC reviews cross-industry…
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Knowing where an organization stands relative to others (or relative to itself in the past) allows an organization to dig more deeply into the strength of its performance and…
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This article reviews APQC’s benchmarking data on the percentage of active customers that are delinquent at any time during the year and highlights strategies that…
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This article originally appeared on CreditToday.net and is reprinted with the author’s permission. David Schmidt is Managing Director of A2 Resources, a consultancy focused…
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This article originally appeared on CreditToday.net and is reprinted with the author’s permission. David Schmidt is Managing Director of A2 Resources, a consultancy focused…
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Like other end-to-end processes, order-to-cash (O2C) involves an interconnected set of processes that span functional boundaries. It is important to be able to manage those…
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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…