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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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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Planning and Management Accounting: Automation and Software - 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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Planning and Management Accounting: Agile Methodology - 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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Planning and Management Accounting: Sustainability - 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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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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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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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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Becoming an Effective Finance Business Partner: Survey Report
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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Finance 2021: Finance Function Trends, Priorities, and Challenges
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2020 to understand the priorities, innovations, trends, and challenges for the finance…
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2021 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges Survey Summary Report
APQC's financial management research team conducted a survey to better understand the priorities and challenges that finance professionals expect to experience in 2021. This…
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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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Finance 2020: Financial Management Trends, Priorities, and Challenges
APQC conducted its annual Financial Management Priorities and Challenges survey in late 2019 to better understand the priorities, innovations, trends, and challenges in…
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2020 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges Survey Summary Report
APQC's financial management research team conducted a survey to better understand the priorities and challenges that finance professionals expect to experience in 2020. This…
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Preparing for the Next Level of Financial Planning and Analysis
APQC and AFP conducted recent research to determine the current state of FP&A as a discipline, understand the characteristics of FP&A at leading organizations, and identify…