August 6, 2010 by Jared Bilski
For A/P, when it comes to making the jump to electronic payments, the question has shifted from “Why should we?” to “Why shouldn’t we?”
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Tags: A/P, Aberdeen Group, Accounts Payable, ACH, Automatic Clearing House, Corporate Credit Card, Global Payments, paper checks, Report, vendors
July 9, 2010 by Jared Bilski
The A/P department usually presents an attractive target for fraudsters. So ensuring your anti-fraud controls are up to snuff is vital — particularly when it comes this exposure.
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Tags: A/P, Accounts Payable, ACFE, Anti-fraud controls, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, External threats, fraud, Invoice process, vendors
May 4, 2010 by Jared Bilski
Virtually every department will be affected by the changes in the healthcare reform law, but Accounts Payable may be able to make a case for having the largest workload.
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Tags: 1099s, A/P department, Accounts Payable, Corporations, Goods and services, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
February 17, 2010 by Jared Bilski
Even 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.
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Tags: A/P savings, Accounts Payable, Contracts, Credits, Duplicate payments, Invoices, Refunds, Sales tax overpayments, Self-audit, Unclaimed discounts
January 29, 2010 by Jared Bilski
From Accounting to Accounts Payable, more companies are showing gratitude for traditionally underappreciated Finance positions. And Credit and Collections is no exception.
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Tags: Accounts Payable, Appreciation, Credit and collections, Credit Management, Credit Research Foundation, Late paying customers
October 13, 2009 by Jared Bilski
Whatever level of automation your Accounts Payable department is at, there are still basic invoice-processing principles most staffers need to follow.
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Tags: A/P, Accounts Payable, Automation, Duplicates, Invoice processing, PO, vendors
September 18, 2009 by Jared Bilski
The 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?
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Tags: Accounts Payable, AP director, IOMA, Manufacturing, Salaries
August 21, 2009 by Jennifer Azara

It may seem light years away now, but year-end will be here before you know it.
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Tags: Accounts Payable, Deadlines, e-reporting, Forms, Taxable wage base, W-2s, Year-end
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!
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Tags: Accounts Payable, British government, Dog bowl, Expense reports, Moat, Pink laptop
May 8, 2009 by Jennifer Azara