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• APQC, IBM Study: Organizations Focused on Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Significantly Outperform Those Focused on Accounting, Control and Cost Management

  - 2006-12-08

  HOUSTON -- A recent APQC and IBM Global Business Services survey of 400 participants within the finance organization, internal controls, revenue accounting and profit and cost management areas, finds that organizations that focus on planning, budgeting and forecasting as a business strategy are higher performers in all areas than those...

  Tags: accounting, APQC, budgeting, cost management, forecasting, IBM Corp.

• Finance and Accounting Benchmarking

  BNET - 2006-04-04

  APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative OSBC database allows organizations that complete surveys free access to comparative reports in their functional areas. In finance and accounting, for example, APQC's research indicates significantly lower cost per invoice for centralized accounts payable operations ($5.00) over decentralized ones ($7.77). Download this paper for more...

  Tags: Accounting, Benchmarking, APQC, Operational Accounting, Finance

• Benchmarks and Best Practices in Accounting, Focus Area: Payroll

  BNET

  Compare your organization to your peer groups and discover ways to improve your accounting performance. How do centralized accounting operations compare to decentralized ones? Learn the answer to these questions in this excerpt from APQC's new benchmarking and best practices book, By the Numbers: Accounting. It tells...

  Tags: Accounting, APQC, Payroll, Best Practice, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

• Benchmark Finance and Accounting: Build Your Foundation and Achieve Measurable Process Improvement

  BNET

  Benchmarking can reduce costs and cycle times and ultimately provide a competitive advantage. But organizations face many pitfalls in the early stages of the benchmarking process, such as starting with too broad a scope or not allowing enough time for data collection. Download this paper to learn the basics of...

  Tags: Accounting, Process Improvement, Benchmarking, APQC, Finance