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.
Looking for something specific?
Ask us-
Infographics|
Collaboration Drives More Effective Cost Allocation
When leaders hear the phrase ‘process improvement,’ it makes sense that technologies like automation or generative AI might come to mind. However, management accounting…
-
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.
-
Infographics|
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…
-
Reports & White Papers|
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…
-
Reports & White Papers|
Finance in Focus: Priorities for 2024
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2023 to better understand the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape…
-
Infographics|
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…
-
Infographics|
Strategies to Avoid a Cash Flow Crunch
Through its annual Financial Management Priorities survey, APQC found that late payments from customers are one of the most common cash flow management challenges facing…
-
Presentation Slides|
Financial Management Priorities and Challenges Presentation Slides
These presentation slides correspond to a March 2024 webinar where Kelley Pruetz, APQC's Principal Research Lead for Financial Management, presented insights and results from…
-
Webinars & Videos|
Financial Management Priorities and Challenges
In this webinar where Kelley Pruetz, APQC's Principal Research Lead for Financial Management, presented insights and results from APQC’s financial management priorities…
-
Infographics|
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…
-
Infographics|
Finance Teams Focused on Risk 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. We found that risk management…
-
Infographics|
Process Improvement is the Top Priority for Finance in 2024
APQC surveyed more than 300 professionals to learn about the focus areas, initiatives, and challenges that will shape finance functions in 2024. We found that process…
-
Infographics|
Top Focus Areas for Financial 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. In this infographic, you will…
-
Infographics|
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…
-
Reports & White Papers|
APQC's Process Maturity Model
Process audits help organizations to evaluate the health of a specific process or process group. Most often, they are used to determine critical gaps in understanding,…