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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Reports & White Papers|
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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Collections|
Becoming an Effective Finance Business Partner
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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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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Reports & White Papers|
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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The level of cost-creep (the gradual build-up over time in the cost/revenue ratio) in enterprise accounting and financial reporting is hard to tolerate for CFOs and…
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The number of employees that it takes to execute a process is often a key indicator of process health and efficiency. In this article, APQC reviews cross industry data for…
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Tools & Templates|
Interactive Financial Reporting Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking General Accounting and Reporting survey, this interactive diagnostic in excel can help you compare your financial…
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Infographics|
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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Articles|
Preparing Finance Reports for the Board
In many organizations, the board of directors is responsible for setting policies that ensure the financial health of the organization, verifying financial standing, and…
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Leading Practices for Financial and Managerial Reporting
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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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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Data visualization is a powerful enhancement to financial and managerial reporting. Done well, data visualization can make complex trends intelligible for non-finance…
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General Accounting and Reporting Key Benchmarks
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in general accounting and reporting, this collection features key performance indicators (KPIs) for general…
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Data and Measures|
General Accounting and Reporting Key Benchmarks: Cross Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in general accounting and reporting, this article highlights key performance indicators (KPIs) for general…
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Data and Measures|
General Accounting and Reporting Key Benchmarks: Services Industry
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® in general accounting and reporting, this article highlights key performance indicators (KPIs) for general…
