Accounts Payable Automation
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2 Buckets of Time!
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You know the bucket is a great invention. I tried to do some research on when the bucket was invented and if anyone was able to pin the accomplishment on any one human… and I didn’t find anything. Anyway, as promised from my last post, I am working through a series that supports the idea…
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Who should I bring to the dance – vendor that is!
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I am not a big fan of using the word “vendor” as it pertains to finding a company that sell and services automation software. I believe that if you do accounting automation correctly as a provider you will be more than someone who simply sells software. That’s why I call automation software vendor, “Service Providers”.…
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This is Automation…. NOT! – Top 5 Signs
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I am happy that “not” jokes have died. Wayne’s World made the joke mainstream but Borat took it to an entirely new level. Off the back of my last post about defining automation, I thought I would go a little negative and explain what automation is not. However, instead of writing automation is not this…
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Back to Basics – What is Automation?
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With the flurry of recent webinars, I am reminded that us automation nerds can’t get too far away from the general public. There are still a lot of people out there that don’t have any real good idea what accounting (AP and Payments) automation is. When training sales folks, I tell them they have to keep…
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I always get nervous for some reason…
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I am very proud of the number of presentation I do each year. Last year it was 588 in 9 different countries. Now, before you think I fly all over the world and never see my wife and four kids, 577 of those presentations were done over the web. I do a lot of webinars…
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Eliminate the need to print paper checks forever! What?
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That’s right… there is a way to eliminate the need, in your business, to print paper checks forever. I know it doesn’t sound possible, but think about consumer banking. I can’t remember the last time I wrote a paper check. I am sure when I did I objected to the point the person asking for the check…
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You can rent YOUR car…. Really? (8/15)
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I couldn’t believe when I read the post from Tech Crunch. There is a company out there, FlightCar that has just started in the San Francisco area that will facilitate a transaction to allow you, the owner of your car, to rent it to a total stranger while you are not using it. My first thought…
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Bathroom Attendants
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Recently I traveled to Chicago to speak at a private event. On my way I noticed the Charlotte airport has bathroom attendants. The guy was nice enough. He was telling everyone to have a good day but I couldn’t help to think if he has a large amount of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is not everything, after…
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Update on the Princess!
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The Princess and the Paper is ready. The editing, proofing, and testing has been completed. The testing took me a long time… Four kids, over fourteen years and countless, “Dad, read that book again!” If you have kids I am sure they are like mine, having a certain book that you have to read over…
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Can Accountants think motivationally?
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Don’t worry, I looked it up “Motivationally” is a word. The dictionary said, “the act or instant of motivating”. One of the quotes that I catch a lot of grief about is a line in The Argument to Automate, where I said that “accountants got into the business of accounting so they wouldn’t have to…