Resource Library
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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If you’re on the finance team, you can’t afford not to think about cyber risk. In this podcast, Mercy Harper talks with APQC’s John Tesmer about the relationship between…
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Tips for a Better Virtual External Audit of the Financials
An external audit of the financial statements is the process by which organizations hire an independent third-party accounting or professional services firm to examine their…
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Record-to-report (R2R) is the end-to-end process of recording, closing, consolidating, and reporting on financial data at the period end. In this podcast, APQC’s Principal…
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Order-to-cash (O2C) is the end-to-end process for receiving and processing customer orders and applying cash. In this podcast, APQC’s Principal Research Lead for Financial…
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How To Structure a Risk Control Matrix
Risk control matrices are powerful tools for identifying, ranking, and implementing control measures to mitigate risks. In this podcast, APQC’s Principal Research Lead for…
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Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) has been in place for nearly two decades, but many organizations still struggle to understand how it fits into their internal controls programs and end…
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How to Structure Internal Audit Programs
Internal audits are key to ensure that risk management, governance, and internal controls processes are operating optimally. But how should organizations structure internal…
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Financial Management’s 3 Lines of Defense
What are the “three lines of defense” (3LOD)? In this podcast, APQC’s Principal Research Lead for Financial Management, Rachele Collins, talks with finance processes expert…
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What are key risk indicators (KRIs)? In this podcast, APQC’s Principal Research Lead for Financial Management, Rachele Collins, talks with finance processes expert and author…
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Finance leaders often wonder how they should structure internal controls. Where should they consider using shared services, and what processes and activities are best managed…
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Internal Controls Glossary of Terms
APQC created this glossary of terms to help those newer to internal controls and those benchmarking their internal controls processes by explaining key terms used throughout…
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Internal Controls and Audit Groups, Events, and Certifications
APQC created this resource list of professional associations, conferences, certifications, and training as a resource for those engaged in managing internal controls as well…
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Internal Controls Rapid Performance Assessment
Gain best practices insights into creating cost-effective, flexible, and responsive internal control processes, and help your organization ensure management directives are…
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Internal Controls Performance Assessment
Gain best practices insights into creating cost-effective, flexible, and responsive internal control processes, and help your organization ensure management directives are…