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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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5 Keys to Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Success
In 2024, it's more important than ever for organizations to optimize these core processes. This infographic highlights five keys to drive success, stability, and…
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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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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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Business Impact of the Finance Talent Skills Gap
In APQC research on The Future of Finance Talent, 60% of respondents reported that capability and skill gaps were a driver of finance talent management at their organization…
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4 Keys to Shrink the Finance Talent Gap
APQC conducted research on The Future of Finance Talent in order to help organizations identify ways they can close the finance talent gap. This infographic reviews the 4…
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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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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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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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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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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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