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.
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Recruiting and Developing Finance Business Partners
As finance professionals increasingly move from transactional support roles to strategy and data-driven decision-making, APQC finds that the skills needed for finance…
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Cycle Time to Complete the Annual Budget
For many organizations, budgeting season means headaches, delays, frustration, and grandstanding across multiple budgetary drafts. But the creation of your annual budget does…
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Like other support areas such as HR and IT, the Finance department in many organizations has evolved in recent years to take on a more strategic role in helping reach…
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Beyond the Budget: How Finance Can Help Build Strategic Success
Like other support areas such as HR and IT, the Finance department in many organizations has evolved in recent years to take on a more strategic role in helping reach…
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Cycle Time for Short-Term Cash Forecasting
Benchmarking the time it takes for you to create a short-term forecast is a good way of evaluating your readiness for disruptive scenarios. In this article, APQC breaks down…
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As the costs of labor continue to increase, organizations are counting on the people they bring on board to be well worth the investment. In this article, APQC reviews cross…
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Becoming an Effective Finance Business Partner: Survey Report
Business stakeholders have always needed a key point of contact within finance to provide answers and guidance. As the importance of data-based decisions has grown and the…
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Funding for Business Process Management
Learn how best-practice organizations allocate funds to business process management (BPM). Based on APQC research, this article explains how resources, funds, and reporting…
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Sales Forecasting in Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical companies have always faced unique challenges in forecasting due to high development costs, a complex regulatory environment, and shifting consumer trends…
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The three core finance processes of planning, budgeting, and forecasting are opportunities to establish finance’s role as an adept business partner. Excerpted from APQC’s…
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Eliminating Process and Data Silos
The planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes are not only core responsibilities of the finance function but also present some of the most fundamental channels in which…
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Automation, cloud computing, and advanced analytics are important tools driving the transformation of the planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for the finance…
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Organizations tend to share the reasonable and simple goals of staying on budget and generating accurate forecasts. But translating those goals into performance measures for…
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Continuous Planning in Finance
Across finance, automation is greatly bolstering process optimization efforts to hasten cycle times and offer better process outputs on-demand. For the core finance processes…
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In February 2021, APQC hosted Philip Peck (VP Advisory Services and Finance Transformation Practice, Peloton Consulting Group) for a conversation about integrated business…
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