February 17, 2010 by Jared BilskiEven if your firm can’t afford to outsource an audit of Accounts Payable, you can bring some of outsourcing’s most successful tactics into your processes. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: A/P savings, Accounts Payable, Contracts, Credits, Duplicate payments, Invoices, Refunds, Sales tax overpayments, Self-audit, Unclaimed discounts
January 29, 2010 by Jared BilskiFrom Accounting to Accounts Payable, more companies are showing gratitude for traditionally underappreciated Finance positions. And Credit and Collections is no exception. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, Appreciation, Credit and collections, Credit Management, Credit Research Foundation, Late paying customers
October 13, 2009 by Jared BilskiWhatever level of automation your Accounts Payable department is at, there are still basic invoice-processing principles most staffers need to follow. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: A/P, Accounts Payable, Automation, Duplicates, Invoice processing, PO, vendors
September 18, 2009 by Jared BilskiThe prominence of the Accounts Payable department has increased in recent years, so what does the portrait of an average firm’s AP director look like? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, AP director, IOMA, Manufacturing, Salaries
August 21, 2009 by Jennifer Azara June 12, 2009 by Jennifer Azara
You and your Accounts Payable folks have probably seen some questionable things staffers tried to slip through on reimbursement. Bet they were never as bad as many of these! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, British government, Dog bowl, Expense reports, Moat, Pink laptop
May 8, 2009 by Jennifer Azara September 9, 2008 by Jennifer AzaraWith all the questions Accounts Payable fields in a given day, staffers may feel more like an information booth than a Finance department. But are those queries eating into your efficiency? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, Interruptions, Questions, Technology
August 5, 2008 by Darlene StahlTechnology’s supposed to make life easier, and automated expense-management does just that. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, Automation, Expense reports
May 8, 2008 by Jennifer AzaraIf your company could stand to scale back paper checks (and whose couldn’t?), ACH is a great choice. That doesn’t mean people, in and outside Finance’s four walls, won’t be nervous about such a move. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accounts Payable, Automated Clearinghouse (ACH), bank, paper checks, vendors