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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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Sales forecasting is a discipline that any strong finance team will want to master and is especially important in industries where the majority of an organization’s operating…
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Cycle Time to Prepare the Financial Forecast
Financial forecasting is a high priority for CFOs, and doing it more efficiently and accurately is an admirable goal. Whether an organization creates a comprehensive forecast…
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Total Cost of Budgeting and Forecasting
Plans, budgets, and forecasts can be some of the most valuable contributions that finance makes to the business. Ideally, they help organizations know what’s coming down the…
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Reviewing and editing draft after draft of your budget can be time consuming, frustrating, and may even risk disengagement from your stakeholders. In this article, we’ll…
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Establishing the Daily Cash Position
Each month, APQC features a showcased metric (cost, productivity, efficiency, cycle time, or supplemental) from our Open Standards Benchmarking® financial management research…
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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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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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Live Future Ready with Scenario Planning
In an uncertain and unpredictable world, disruptions to business as usual—whether good or bad—can come at any time. While no organization or finance professional can predict…
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This article summarizes reflections from Nevine White (VP Accounting, Hargray Communications Group) and John Merriman (VP Finance, Copper Mountain Resort) from their journey…
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Planning and Management Accounting Rapid Performance Assessment
Understand cost, productivity, and efficiency as your organization plans, budgets, and forecasts when you complete the Planning and Management Accounting Rapid Performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Performance Assessment
Management accounting focuses on internal processes to understand cost, productivity, and efficiency as your organization plans, budgets, and forecasts. When you complete the…