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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Blueprint for Success: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Second Edition)
The realm of planning and management accounting is a top priority. CFOs want to speed up workflows, control process costs, leverage talent, improve the precision of forecasts…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Automation and Software - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Agile Methodology - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Sustainability - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Planning and Management Accounting: Process and Data Maturity - Cross-Industry Report
APQC prepares cross-industry views of key performance indicators as well as industry-specific views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of measures…
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Recruiting and Developing Finance Business Partners
As finance professionals increasingly move from transactional support roles to strategy and data-driven decision-making, APQC finds that the skills needed for finance…
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Beyond the Budget: How Finance Can Help Build Strategic Success
Like other support areas such as HR and IT, the Finance department in many organizations has evolved in recent years to take on a more strategic role in helping reach…
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Becoming an Effective Finance Business Partner: Survey Report
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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Finance 2021: Finance Function Trends, Priorities, and Challenges
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2020 to understand the priorities, innovations, trends, and challenges for the finance…
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2021 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges Survey Summary Report
APQC's financial management research team conducted a survey to better understand the priorities and challenges that finance professionals expect to experience in 2021. This…
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Cost Accounting and Management Practices: Cross-Industry Spotlight
APQC conducts ongoing Open Standards Benchmarking® survey research to help organizations benchmark and improve their processes. The research gathers metric data (cost,…
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Finance 2020: Financial Management Trends, Priorities, and Challenges
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2019 to better understand the priorities, innovations, trends, and challenges in…
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2020 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges Survey Summary Report
APQC's financial management research team conducted a survey to better understand the priorities and challenges that finance professionals expect to experience in 2020. This…
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Case Study|
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…
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Case Study|
Moving Beyond Budgets: Holt Cat Case Study
HOLT CAT is the authorized Caterpillar heavy equipment and engine dealer for 118 counties in South, Central, North, and East Texas. This case study discusses the…