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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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…
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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…
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This infographic discusses the cycle time in days between the completion of an organization’s consolidated financial statements and the release of the organization’s earnings…
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Total Cost to Perform Financial Reporting per $1,000 Revenue
Financial reporting provides critical business intelligence that helps organizations to drive investment, secure credit, maintain compliance, and more. While the financial…
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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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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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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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Number of Accounts in the Chart of Accounts
The chart of accounts (COA) is a key accounting tool used for transaction processing, accounting activities, reconciliations, and financial reporting. It lies at the heart of…
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Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Database, this infographic discusses the cycle time to perform the annual close and shares advice to help…
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Consolidated financial statements enable organizations with a parent company and subordinate reporting units to report their finances as a single enterprise for creditors,…
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Return on Invested Capital: Reevaluating Investments
As countries begin to lift their pandemic restrictions and business leaders look toward post-COVID business models, it’s important to ask whether the investments you made in…
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Robotic Process Automation & The Finance Function
RPA is a promising technology for finance functions. RPA is a form of server-based process automation that combines process steps with decision models or business rules with…
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Reports & White Papers|
Fixed Asset Accounting Practices: Cross-Industry Survey Summary Report
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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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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Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting: Survey Summary Report
APQC conducted a survey to help understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting and how finance functions are leveraging data…