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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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APQC’s 2022 Financial Management Priorities Survey identified cash flow and risk as top priorities for financial professionals and revealed that small business teams have…
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Cost categories provide a fine-grained view of process spending that leaders can use to identify potential savings or improvement opportunities more easily. In this article,…
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Shared service centers (SSCs) provide a centralized team that carries out high-volume, repeatable processes on behalf of business units or areas across an enterprise. But not…
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Unpacking Days Payable Outstanding
Liquidity and cash flow are critical for an organization’s ability to pay its operating expenses, especially in moments of significant disruption like a recession or global…
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What Data Management Means for the Business
Organizations often approach data management as a purely technical problem to be solved by data scientists and through expensive new technologies. For Dan French, data…
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Duplicate or erroneous payments in AP can add up to substantial monetary loses, along with the lost time and resources an organization will expend trying to correct…
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Three-fourths of respondents to APQC’s annual Financial Management Priorities survey ranked process improvement as the top priority for their finance functions in 2022. In…
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More than a third of respondents to APQC’s annual Financial Management Priorities survey (36 percent) said that finance talent management is a top priority for the finance…
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Systems 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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APQC and the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) examined how 177 organizations are managing and improving their end-to-end order-to-cash (O2C) processes during turbulent…
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APQC’s Order-to-Cash: Best Practices Report provides a best practices for optimizing O2C through strategy and structure, people, process, technology, and measurement…
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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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Overhead 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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Personnel 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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