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AI in the Finance Function Survey Report: Services Industry
In 2020-21, APQC conducted a survey to explore the use of AI in the finance function. This report explores trends in AI and its applications in services industry finance…
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New Developments in Internal Controls Survey Report: Services Industry
Internal controls are important mechanisms put in place by organizations to help safeguard assets, ensure reliable and accurate financial reporting, prevent against fraud,…
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Transforming Quote-to-Cash at IBM
IBM optimized opportunity-to-order (O2O) and order-to-cash (O2C), but still struggled with data availability and cycle times due to the handoff between these processes. IBM…
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Internal Controls Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in internal controls, this table highlights financial management internal controls key benchmarks for all…
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Internal Controls Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Manage Internal Controls”…
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T&E: The How, The Why, The ROI Services Industry Report
The realm of corporate business travel research has a long-existing gap that needs to be addressed, which is what is the ROI of T&E spend? Furthermore, the nature of T&E…
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Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Accounts Receivable and Collections Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Gain insight into the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization’s processes by benchmarking common business activities. The process group “Perform revenue accounting”…
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Digital Transformation of the Finance Function: Services Industry Practices Report
APQC conducts ongoing research on the finance function to help organizations benchmark and assess the performance of their own finance functions against other organizations…
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Fixed Assets Accounting Practices Report: Services Industry
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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Treasury Operations: Services Industry Practices Spotlight Report
Prepared using APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® data in Treasury Operations, this report highlights qualitative performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks and practices for…
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Finance Analytics: Building High-performance Structure, Tools, and Teams Services Industry Spotlight
Analytics is an increasingly important part of finance’s role as strategic business partner, helping derive key business insights and support better decision making by…
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Data Visualization in Accounting
This article shares insights from Danielle Supkis Cheek, a lecturer at Rice University and director in the entrepreneurial advisory services group for the accounting…
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Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting: Services Industry
APQC conducted a survey to help understand leading practices for effective and compelling financial and managerial reporting and how finance functions are leveraging data…
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Preparing for the Next Level of Financial Planning and Analysis: Abt Associates Inc. Case Study
Drawing from an interview conducted with Mike Powers, senior manager of treasury and risk, this case study presents an overview of Abt Associates' key FP&A processes,…
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