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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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Performing a Financial Evaluation of New Products
Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this infographic discusses the measure “cycle time in days to perform a financial evaluation of…
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Percentage Error for the Total Sales Forecast
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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Do’s and Don’ts of Rolling Forecasts
When transitioning from a traditional budget and forecast, organizations must exercise caution to avoid certain pitfalls. This infographic explores the top 10 mistakes…
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A global process owner is responsible for managing a process across the enterprise. This infographic discuss why having a single-point owner for key processes ensures…
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Technology Trends in Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
Finance functions are in a transitional period when it comes to the integration of leading-edge technologies for planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, with a fairly…
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5 Keys to Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Success
In 2024, it's more important than ever for organizations to optimize these core processes. This infographic highlights five keys to drive success, stability, and…
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Total Cost of Budgeting and Forecasting
This infographic focuses on the median total cost of budgeting and forecasting, across industries, as reported in APQC's Planning and Management Accounting survey.
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Number of Budget Versions Produced Before Final Approval
Reviewing and editing draft after draft of your budget can be time consuming, frustrating, and may even risk disengagement from your stakeholders. This infographic…
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Successful Finance Business Partnerships
Business stakeholders have always needed a key point of contact within finance to provide answers and guidance. As the importance of data-based decisions has grown and the…
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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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The ability to prepare or adjust short-term cash flow forecasts quickly allows organizations to make better and more informed decisions about their cash needs, investments,…
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Business Entity Revenue Per Employee
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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Delivering Treasury Success in the 'Next Normal': Findings Related to Cash Management and Forecasting
In 2020, APQC partnered with Ernie Humphrey, CEO of Treasury Webinars, to conduct a study based on both a survey (N=246) as well as interviews focused on what success looks…
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Scenario Planning Example in Practice
Scenario planning can help as an organization prepares to mitigate the worst impacts of disruption and quickly take advantage of new opportunities. Regardless of whether the…