Accounts Payable
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Attention AP Automation Sales People!
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That’s right! Salespeople. You know the same people that you avoid in the mall that are trying to sell you hand cream. Or the nicely dress person walking through your neighborhood carrying a clipboard. Well fortunately, for an AP Automation salesperson there is no classic sales stigma. Recently I have noticed that following me on…
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If You Know Accounts Payable You Don’t Know AP Automation – What?
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Oh no… I have not been looking forward to writing this article. However, it’s one of those things that I believe needs to be addressed. The common perception, rightfully so, is if you are an accounting or accounts payable professional, then you know AP Automation, or you at least have a preconceived notion of what…
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Adoption, Options and Successful AP Automation!
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It is curious that expense reporting, commonly known as travel and expense or T&E 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…
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How to Establish a New Vendor Approval Process
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Doing anything new can be risky. The risk is taking something that, let’s face it, has worked and it probably not all that bad and changing it to something new. Accounting and finance folks always have to weigh change by a combination of how difficult the change will be and what the impact to the organizations…
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Calm Seas Don’t Make Good Sailors – #APAutomation
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I am late to the Walking Dead movement, so I made a pledge that I would catch up thought Netflix while riding my bike. Don’t worry it was a stationary bike. I was well into achieving my goal when I came across an episode where the crew was in a prison and in the beginning of the…
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Best Practices for Managing Internal Fraud #APAutomation
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Fact! Expense reimbursement fraud makes up about 15 percent of business fraud with a median annual loss of $26,000.* * Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, 2012 I have come to realize that accounting and finance people are always on the lookout for a great story about catching the bad guy or…
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Can Tony Soprano Run An Accounting Department?
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I know… I have written some ridiculous articles in my time, and this one must really looks like it’s out of left field. Well, hang with me. Last year I wrote an eBook called “Could Steve Jobs Run An Accounting Department?” As far as 2014 went the Jobs book was the most requested and second…
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Sorry or #Sorry
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It have been a long time since I have written a new article. I have no real excuse. I have had plenty of time, I guess I have had some sort of writer’s block. Maybe doing five articles a week was too much, or maybe I am getting tired of the subject or Accounts Payable…
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Mobile Apps and Accounts Payable Automation
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A lot has been made about adding a mobile app to a software platform like AP Automation. Let’s face it, we now live in a mobile society. When I was in college one of the things that people (randomly) thought that was cool about my dorm room was the fact that I have a twenty-foot…
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7 Little Known Facts About AP Automation
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I like giving people the inside scoop. I almost believe that when it comes to AP Automation, my entire professional career is dedicated to telling people things they don’t know. There is nothing like a good “ah-ha” moment for a person. Especially a person that has been looking at a problem for a while and…