Paperless Accounting
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8-Step Plan for Migrating to AP Automation
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I like steps. I heard a webinar from Guy Kawasaki where he said that he always liked to do a webinar about 10 things because you will know where you are in the webinar at all times, and if (as he put it) he sucks then you will know how much longer he will be.…
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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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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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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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With AP Automation, Is Cost The Most Important Factor? – 1 Sad Story.
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I think I would turn off an entire group of readers if I wrote that cost wasn’t important. Cost is the way we establish value for things. Cost helps up benchmark and prioritize projects within the business world. Cost is very important, but today I am going to use a real life example to help…
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Who is more qualified? AP Automation or a Person?
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This is my man vs machine article. Who is more qualified – Accounts Payable Automation software or a good old human being? The Argument In my book The Argument to Automation – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire, I write a lot about why Accounts Payable Automation is good and the impact and benefit of…
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Hiring The Most Qualified Accounts Payable Person Ever!
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I don’t know if you can call this my “new kick”, but lately I have really been looking at the impact Accounts Payable Automation has on people. Now not just the obvious impact but the “real” impact. Obvious As I have written many times, the obvious impact of AP Automation is more time, lower cost…
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AP Automation Is Only Good If… 3 Things
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I have made a lot of progress in the last few months around the definition of Accounts Payable Automation. Some of you may know that’s the reason I wrote The 8 Pitfalls was to help people define AP Automation. Others of you may know that I didn’t reach my goal when writing that book. Good…
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The Outcome and Impact of #APAutomation
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I tell people who are new to Accounts Payable Automation, whether they are a users, evaluator or salesperson the same thing. I tell them the problem with AP Automation is people don’t know what it is, how it works or the impact that it will have on their organization. Then a pause for a minute…