Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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Danielle DehmlerBuckley (VP Finance, BlogFrog, Inc.)
Danielle DehmlerBuckley
Title: VP Finance
Company: BlogFrog, Inc.

We're a fast growing tech start-up and want a tool that pulls our financial, salesforce, and analytics data.  We'd like the data real time and in the cloud so we can give access to execs, investors, and some employees (permission based).  I'm 1.5 weeks...
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Alison Harris (President, Harris Media Services)
Alison Harris
Title: President
Company: Harris Media Services

Quantrix has released the results from the 2012 survey it conducted of business and finance professionals about their forecasting and planning processes, teams, and toolsets. The survey results identify and quantify a number of challenges facing business and finance...
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Wayne Spivak (Managing Consulting CFO, SBA * Consulting, LTD)
Wayne Spivak
Title: Managing Consulting CFO
Company: SBA * Consulting, LTD

I just read in a recent edition of Forbes that Amazon has approximately 500 KPI's.  In addition, 80% of those KPI's related to customers. How many KPI's do you use?  Do you find 500 excessive?  Can you think of what 500 KPI's might be?
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Gloria Vigil (Finance Manager, Nelson Family of Companies)
Gloria Vigil
Title: Finance Manager
Company: Nelson Family of Companies

Can anyone share the top 3-5 KPI's for the staffing industry?
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Scott Gunn (Treasury Manager, in-between)
Scott Gunn
Title: Treasury Manager
Company: in-between

I would like to gather some insights as what people feel are the three to five main key financial metrics that are best to use in measuring and managing business performance. How often do you measure, monitor and report them? How do you determine the 3-5 key drivers...
Anonymous (CFO)

It feels like in this economy we should be monitoring some external indicators, I can think of a few for our business, but are there companies using external indicators to measure or drive their business? If so where are they consistently finding them, how are they bringing...
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scott graves (CFO, Duke Manufacturing)
scott graves
Title: CFO
Company: Duke Manufacturing

We are in the process of implementing Performance Boards in the Finance / Accounting department to document, track and drive performance.  Initially, we discussed tracking on a daily basis: # invoices processed (payables), # errors (payables), $ receivables collected...
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David Wittenberg (Decision Architect, Verax Point)
David Wittenberg
Title: Decision Architect
Company: Verax Point

Employee performance metrics can seriously undermine a project team’s objectivity. Know how team members are evaluated and rewarded in their daily responsibilities and how to respond when those measures are misleading.   Does this sound familiar? You’re...