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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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Benefits of a Centralized Chart of Accounts
Centralizing the set up and maintenance of the chart of accounts is an APQC best practice for Accounts Payable. The centralization creates an internal control. In addition,…
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A Smaller IT Headcount is Not Necessarily Better
When organizations are looking to cut costs and improve margins, headcount is often one of the first places that leaders scrutinize. When it comes to IT, however,…
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The Future of Finance Talent: Enabling a Future-Focused Talent Management Strategy
The finance function is evolving in many organizations as finance leaders look to add higher-value services to their traditional focus on administration and compliance. With…
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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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Cycle Time to Approve and Schedule T&E Reimbursements
After nearly coming to a standstill in 2020, business travel is bouncing back. As organizations return to or even surpass their pre-COVID levels of travel and entertainment …
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Cycle Time to Produce Period-End Management Reports
Period-end management reports are an important form of decision-making support that helps leaders gain insight on specific areas of the business. These reports typically…
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Total Uncollectable Balances as a Percentage of Revenue
It’s more important than ever to know how much bad debt (e.g., payments owed that will never be collected from customers) you hold, particularly in a chaotic business…
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