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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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Accounts Payable Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in accounts payable and expense reimbursement, this table highlights financial management key performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in planning and management accounting, these documents highlight financial management planning and management…
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Defense Finance and Accounting Service: Finance Talent Management in a Government Agency
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) with headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. DFAS is…
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General Accounting and Reporting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in general accounting and reporting, this collection features key performance indicators (KPIs) for general…
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Payroll Process Technology Practices Report
APQC conducts ongoing survey research on payroll performance to help organizations assess the structure, performance, and practice of their finance functions against peers…
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Internal Controls Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Manage Internal Controls”…
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Enterprise Risk Assessment at IRS
In May 2021, Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Thomas Brandt served as the featured guest presenter on an APQC financial management webinar to discuss the organization’s enterprise…
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Evolving Practices in Enterprise Risk Management at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Federal Government comprised of 10 diverse government agencies…
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury with a mission to “provide America’s taxpayers top-quality service by helping them understand…
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Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Recently, APQC interviewed Carmen Lim, the order to cash global process adviser for Chevron Lubricants’ U.S. operations and product owner for Chevron Lubricants’ Agile team,…
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Transformation in Order-to-Cash at Ecolab Indonesia
Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services, is in the process of centralizing and standardizing key processes in order to…
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Transforming Credit-to-Cash at Cargill
Cargill Inc. is the largest privately-held company in the United States by revenue ($114.7 billion in 2018) and has approximately 166,000 employees working in 70 countries…
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This case study explores how BDP International implemented a global finance transformation to eliminate waste, standardize processes, improve reporting, and scale through…
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This case study discusses how Solvay took a systematic approach to centralize all closing activities into shared services centers; the structure, roles, and governance for…