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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This infographic focuses on the percentage of approved capital projects considered within or on budget, as reported in APQC's Planning and Management Accounting Survey.
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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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6 Productivity KPIs Finance Teams Need to Track
APQC surveyed more than 300 professionals to learn about the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape finance functions in 2024. APQC found that many…
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Prioritizing Cash Flow Management in 2024
APQC surveyed more than 300 professionals to learn about the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape finance functions in 2024. APQC found that many…
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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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Total Cost to Manage Financial Policies and Procedures
Every organization should undertake a regular audit of its financial policies and procedures. Finance teams that can run these reviews in an efficient way can get back to the…
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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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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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Eliminating Adjustments Bottlenecks
Adjustments come about for perfectly understandable reasons. In some cases, customers might find that there was a mistake in their billing or that an order is delivered with…
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Improving your organization’s performance of AP processes year-over-year is all well and good, but is it good enough relative to other organizations? Benchmarking against…
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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…