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Can Your Accounts Payable Process Withstand a Vacation? 4 Things
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Well, it’s unofficially summer, and what comes with summer are vacations. My (then) 7-year-old son said that he liked going on long car rides. In my opinion it was a strange thing for a 7-year-old to say so I asked him why he liked long car rides. He said it gave him plenty of time to…
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Outsource Scanning is Like Going On A 10 Week Vacation W/O Fun #APAutomation #Fusion 11:30 CST
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If you are at Fusion this week – comes see this session live! Weather you like or not, outsourcing is a tool that is here to say. If you are one of those that have looked to outsourcing or are looking there are a few things you should know and be prepared for as outsource…
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6 Things That Won’t Kill Your Vendor When Outsourcing Scanning #APAutomation #Fusion – 10:15
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If you are at Fusion this week – comes see this session live! Outsourcing is somewhat of a hot topic. When I first got in business I had a friend (that did much better than me) who started a company and told me that his company would never do anything outside of their “core” competency.…
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Once You Automate AP – Would You Do It Again?
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Recently I completed a study of 400 company that have automated their accounts payable process. When I do studies I try as hard as I can to make things simple so I can get a maximum response. This time I decided to ask them one question: “If you had to do it all over again…
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After The paper Is Gone In AP – When Do The Questions Stop? #APAutomation
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As someone who has spent a lot of time either helping organizations change or doing the change, I have developed a pretty long list of what I like to call “key indicators”. Key Indicators These are actions, conversations, or questions that tell me where a person or a group really is in the process of…
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As An Accounting Professional – What Did You NOT Go To School For? #APAutomation
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If you read my articles you will know that most of my writing is written from a positive perspective. This article, however, I wanted to write about a conversation I had with one of my AP Automation buddy that took a negative turn. Picture This My friend was faced with expanding to a group of…
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What’s Heavier a Ton of Paper Invoices or a Ton of Bricks? #APAutomation
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Well, happy Friday. I know looking back on this article it won’t be Friday, or it may be just by coincidence. Anyway, I am feeling a little “out of the box” because of the combination of events that are coming up (that I am not 100% prepared for) with spring fever, so today’s article is…
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There is a Calm Before the AP Automation Change
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You have heard the expression, “calm before the storm”. My grandmother told me the greater the calm the bigger the storm. The Path With Accounts Payable Automation there too is a calm. However to start at the beginning there is a path that leads to that calm. Usually, someone in the organization gets the idea…
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3 Things to Consider When Agreeing to Accounts Payable Automation
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I thought it might be interesting to give you insight to the types of contractual agreements that work well for AP Automation. As I have written many times, one of the down sides to AP Automation is the fact that people generally don’t have experience with it. (And) Other experiences tend to get in the…
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What Happens After You Say “Yes” To AP Automation? 3 Things
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I don’t know if I have ever written a more obvious headline, but I want to go way beyond implementing, and give you a glimpse of how the organization reacts to news that Accounts Payable Automation is going to take the paper invoices away. When? One of the initial things to think about is when…
