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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…