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My Own Personal Approval Process – 14 Years In The Making
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I don’t do a lot of approving, however for the last 14 years I have been helping companies improve their approval process, so I thought I would give you a little historical timeline of AP Automation changes over the last 14 years. But first… Recently my company has just hired a new accounts payable person. I…
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Bad Habits When Automating AP – 6 of Them
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Habits are an interesting thing. You have probably heard the saying you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Well, good things dogs don’t run accounts payable processes. If you are like me, it seem like every time you turn around something is changing. Don’t get me wrong, I think change is good, so where…
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8 Places You Are Losing Time And Money In Accounts Payable
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No one likes to lose money. One time I was at the grocery store and did the self checkout (I love those things) and got $20 cash back, but was in such a hurry I left the money. I really hated losing that $20, but I think I hated my own stupidity event more. The…
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3 Easy Ways to Push (Nicely) For An AP Automation Decision
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In this day with competing objective and corporate goals, it seem impossible to get a project like AP Automation in the queue. One of the big problems with Accounts Payable Automation is the projects that get company attention are fixing things, especially when it comes to information technology. The IT department always has needs that are…
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6 Surprising Facts About Accounts Payable Automation
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I like surprises. However I like them around my birthday or on vacations. Basically any time other than business. To put it another way, I don’t like surprise with it comes to business. The 8 Pitfalls When I wrote The 8 Pitfalls, I wanted to write a book that would help people not be so surprised…
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The Red Rover – Red Rover – of AP Automation
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I once heard a comedian say that a school system was outlawing dodge ball because it made some student feel bad. He then said that if that was the case they should outlaw math. I don’t think dodge ball was nearly as bad as red rover. Red Rover For those of you that don’t know…
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8 Practices For Effective Approval Changes – #APAutomation
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Change can be such a dirty word in corporate America. I have found that when you really look at why a process is in place and when faced with changing that process, the people who are against the change are unable to give you a really good reason, other than “that’s the way we have…
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Rules of Thumb For Leading Your Team Into AP Automation
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I don’t think I have ever achieved anything by following the rules. You know the rules that others put on you or perceive that are good for you. Now, I am not talking about breaking the law. I have never achieved anything by breaking the law either, so today I am writing about that interesting…
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Get People to Do More Outside of Accounting – #APAutomation
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When companies look at Accounts Payable Automation one of their initial desires is to make their operations more efficient . This, by the way, is a very good goal, but the types of efficiency the companies focus on are normally within the accounting department. Even through that’s a great place to look it’s not the…
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Top 10 AP Automation Destination Vacations
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I don’t think I have ever taken a destination vacation. When I wrote the title for this article I think I used the term without knowing what it was (yep – I will admit that). So I did a little research, and come to find out… Google doesn’t even know what it is either. There…