Have you ever heard something time and time again until you know it… but, for some reason, you hear it again and it seems like the first time? Yesterday was one of those days for me. I was talking with a company that has had paper in Accounts Payable for years.  As an AP automator for…

Have you ever tried to forget your name?  Go ahead – try it… I will wait. Can’t do it, can you?  Trying to forget your name is impossible. I can forget where I put my keys, or what I was doing when I walked from one room to another, but Ican’t forget my name. I…

It’s hard to tell if the book signing was a success. There were a lot of people at the book store… I hovered over the section where the books were displayed for sale and, as soon as someone touched an 8 Pitfalls book, I pounced! First there was shock when they looked on the back of the…

 This week was spent with a few hundred of my closest Accounts Payable friends at IAPP’s Fusion conference. Here are a few things I learned:  IAPP is no longer called IAPP – They are now IFO – Institute of Financial Operations.  Little things make big differences – Story Mustgrave (Keynote Speaker)   A company can be…

I guess I have a place to sit at IAPP’s Fusion conference that starts today and runs through May 12th. I will be at the AvidXchange booth (812)  in the exhibitor’s hall. I don’t know if AvidXchange felt sorry for me and wanted me to have a place  to sit and put my stuff or if…

The 8 Pitfalls of Accounts Payable Automation is still selling well, and I very much appreciate all of the conversations about how to go from paper to an automated AP process. Conversations about getting prepared, selecting the correct service provider, ROI, cost per invoice, types of projects, training, evaluation and what the future may hold. On…

This week I spent time in Nashville. (Short aside) This was my 5:30 am wake up call: “bing – bing – bing…”.  I thought the alarm was going off so I was trying to unplug it.  It continued, “Attention guests, we are under a tornado warning and need to evacuate the building. Please proceed to the front desk for instructions.” I…

I don’t do this too often, but through twitter I found this site: http://www.ishade.com/  I like the site because it connects accountants (and we all know what happens when a bunch of accountants get together). But that is not the most interesting aspect of the site. I was lured in by the free advertising for my 8…

I am sure someone in this world has done a study on how much it costs a company when a question goes unanswered. Depending on who is asking, when, and how it will impact a certain company at a certain time, by a certain group, the unanswered question could be very costly. This is true when…

Now that title is a very tall order. I don’t have any data to back it up (had a friend who would say “trust in God, everyone else bring data”). To be true to my goals – writing a book that was a big seller wasn’t on the radar. However the book has sold 358…