Accounts Payable Automation
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#4 Top Blog Of The Year – What does 1500 invoices per month mean to AP Automation
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Tuesday I was speaking to a group in Boston… they asked me to talked fast because there was a snow storm on the way. You know I was very conflicted because I thought that people in Boston were used to the snow… even liked it. Then it was explained to me that the panic was…
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#5 Top Blog Of The Year – Bad Habits When Automating AP – 6 of Them
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Habits are an interesting thing. You have probably heard the saying you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Well, good things dogs don’t run accounts payable processes. If you are like me, it seem like every time you turn around something is changing. Don’t get me wrong, I think change is good, so where…
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Stealing Stopped By Accounts Payable Automation – 4 Things
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I have always been intrigued with people that lean by viewing the opposite. If it is not this it is not that. I find myself doing a lot of that, which is the reason I came up with the opposite of risk. Why? Well… I have been writing a lot about Accounts Payable Automation and…
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When AP Automation Competition Goes Wrong
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I am not big on politics. I vote and watch the US Government from a far, but don’t really like the details too much. I have found that I am completely discussed with political ads. Living on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina I had the sheer pleasure (sarcasm) getting the full brunt…
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Stop The Risk In Accounts Payable #APAutomation
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As an automator one of the most frustrating things that I have to combat is the notion that a company’s Accounts Payable process will become less secure if the paper is gone. I Understand I get it… I have talked to people who have been running the AP process for thirty years with paper. The…
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Does Artificial Intelligence Really Threaten Mankind? #APAutomation
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Recently both physicist Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk the CEO of Telsa Motors were quoted as saying that computers are getting smarter. In an article on TechTimes.com James Maynard wrote: “…warning of the dangers posed by developing human-like intelligence in computer systems” The article went on to proclaim: “Ray Kurzweil… believes that computers will soon…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Re-Implementing AP Automation
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With the new year heading our way (can you believe it?) you may start to think of the state of your Accounts Payable Automation. There is something about a new year that makes people want to improve. My favorite thing to see, as a year round runner, are all of the new faces in my…
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It’s The Little Things – Why Approval Steps Are Important #APAutomation
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Knowing the little things is what makes a person skillful. We hear this in sports all the time, that the coaches who are more successful than other are able to get their players to do the basics better than anyone. As a musician, I get to play with other musicians, and you can tell the…
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How To Increase Adoption #APAutomation
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I have found it to be curious that Account Payable Automation projects can be hit or miss. A hit is a full adoption with no one person left out. A miss is having one process that is automated and a second process that is paper. What? That’s right, you may be surprised how many AP Automation…
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Could Steve Jobs Run An #Accounting Department?
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Well… this is the big reveal… the moment we have all been waiting for. As you may know I have written a few articles about Steve Jobs running an accounting department. I guess I have taken a little break from my normal Accounts Payable Automation writing to help accounting and finance professionals sharpen the saw…
