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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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Now in the Resource Library: Financial Management
This report provides an overview of recently released financial management content in APQC's Resource Library, along with upcoming research and financial management resources…
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Financial Evaluation of New Products
How long does it take your finance team to perform financial evaluations for new products? Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this…
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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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Interactive Finance Organization Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Finance Organization survey, this interactive diagnostic in Excel can help you compare your finance function's…
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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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Finance FTEs per $1 Billion in Revenue
Calculating and benchmarking the total number of full time-equivalent employees (FTEs) in the finance function is a good way to get a quick snapshot of finance function…
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Outsourced Cost of the Finance Function
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking segments the total cost of the finance function into five categories: systems cost, personnel cost, overhead cost, outsourced cost, and…
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Guaranteed Analytics
This article gleans insights from author and consultant Jim Rushton, Managing Director, Armeta Analytics, in terms of strategies, insights, and real-world examples of why so…
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Top Scenarios to Consider in Scenario Planning
Scenario planning is an important tool in the finance toolkit to help organizations prepare for the unexpected―whether it be upside, or downside. This article summarizes some…
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This article shares insights from Smarter Solutions CEO, Forrest Breyfogle, about how organizations can develop an integrated enterprise excellence business management system…
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FP&A in 2020: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In an APQC webinar, FP&A thought leader Brian Kalish (founder of Kalish Consulting) discussed four trends for finance and FP&A in particular for the next year based on…
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Actionable Profitability Analytics
In contrast to traditional accounting in the general ledger, which can be rigid and two-dimensional, actionable profitability analytics allows an organization to track and…
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In July of 2019, APQC spoke with FP&A expert Brian Kalish, principal and founder at Kalish Consulting, to gather his insights as part of the Finance Data Analytics: Building…