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Enterprise Risk Management in Government
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is the process by which organizations identify and manage a broad portfolio of significant risks in an integrated way. ERM is foundational…
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Managing Complex Risk in Utilities
In early 2021, Winter Storm Uri caused one of the largest power blackouts ever in the United States. Whereas other regions are built to handle a seven-day hard freeze, this…
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In the Fall of 2020 through the Spring of 2021, APQC partnered with Paul Walker, Ph.D. (Schiro/Zurich Chair in Enterprise Risk Management at St. John’s University) to carry…
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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 long-standing discipline of process improvement has reemerged as a central concern for organizations as they continue in their automation and digital transformation…
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A well-tended employee reimbursement process can guide employees through pertinent guidelines, seamlessly collect the necessary data, automatically analyze and process…
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Among the countless changes for business in 2021, some of the most drastic deviations came from travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses. Businesses must plan for the realm of…
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The massive shift to remote work during the Covid pandemic required employees to hastily establish home offices that have become long-term work arrangements. Immediate…
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It has been said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. And unless your organization is a large corporation with teams of lobbyists in Washington, D.C., it’s…
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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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This Q&A article with ScottMadden, part of a four-part series, examines issues surrounding moving transaction-oriented administrative activity into a shared services model…
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