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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks: Retail and Wholesale Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® in planning and management accounting, this table highlights planning and management accounting key performance…
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Planning and Management Accounting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in planning and management accounting, these documents highlight financial management planning and management…
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Becoming an Effective Finance Business Partner: Retail and Wholesale Industry 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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2021 Financial Management Priorities and Challenges: Retail and Wholesale Practices 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: Retail and Wholesale 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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Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: Retail and Wholesale Industry Spotlight
APQC prepares retail and wholesale industry views of key performance indicators as well as cross-industry views to gain a sense of how relevant peers perform across a set of…
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Preparing for the Next Level of Financial Planning and Analysis: Global Tech Company Case Study
In March of 2019, APQC interviewed the finance lead at a large global technology company that offers a wide range of products and services. According to the finance lead, the…
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Preparing for the Next Level of Financial Planning and Analysis: Retail and Wholesale Industry Spotlight
APQC and the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) conducted a survey to understand where Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) stands regarding current tools,…
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Planning Without Budgets: LT Apparel
This case study describes how New York-based LT Apparel Group, a privately-held supplier of children’s clothing, replaced its traditional, spreadsheet-based semiannual…
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Cycle time in days to complete the annual budget
Total cost to perform the process "perform planning/budgeting/forecasting" as a percentage of revenue
Total cost to perform the process "perform planning/budgeting/forecasting" per process FTE
Personnel cost to perform the process "perform planning/budgeting/forecasting" per process FTE
