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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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Cycle Time in Days to Resolve Adjustments
A lengthy cycle time for billing adjustments can cause ripple effects for key finance processes like reporting and forecasting. After reviewing cross-industry data on cycle…
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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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Finance Organization Key Benchmarks
Featuring data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® for the finance organization, the articles in this collection highlight key cost, productivity, cycle time, and…
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Tools & Templates|
Now in the Resource Library: Financial Management
This report provides an overview of recently released financial management content in APQC's Resource Library, along with upcoming research and financial management resources…
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Tools & Templates|
Interactive Finance Organization Tune-Up Diagnostic
Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Finance Organization survey, this interactive diagnostic in Excel can help you compare your finance function's…
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Infographics|
Performing a Financial Evaluation of New Products
Prepared using data from APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment, this infographic discusses the measure “cycle time in days to perform a financial evaluation of…
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Prepared using data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Database, this infographic discusses the cycle time to perform the annual close and shares advice to help…
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The annual close comes during one of the heaviest workload periods of the year for accountants, as month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes converge in a…
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Finance FTEs per $1 Billion in Revenue
Calculating and benchmarking the total number of full time-equivalent employees (FTEs) in the finance function is a good way to get a quick snapshot of finance function…
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Outsourced Cost of the Finance Function
APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking segments the total cost of the finance function into five categories: systems cost, personnel cost, overhead cost, outsourced cost, and…
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Data and Measures|
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Mining Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
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Data and Measures|
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Telecommunications Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
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Data and Measures|
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Utility Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
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Data and Measures|
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Electronics Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
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Data and Measures|
Finance Organization Key Benchmarks: Media and Entertainment Industry
Prepared using data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking for the finance organization, this article highlights key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarks for organizations…
