payments
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The CFO and Automation.
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This week’s series is focusing on the people who can best benefit from accounting automation. I am starting with the accounting department and the different roles within the department. Starting at the top of most accounting departments is the CFO or Chief Financial Officer. If you are a CFO or report to a CFO, my experience…
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People Who Benefit From Accounting Automation.
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At first glance this may seem like a silly statement “People who benefit from accounting automation“. There is a couple of ways of looking at that statement. One is to ask the obvious question of “who wouldn’t benefit from accounting automation?” Let me deal with that first. It is true… everyone in the business can…
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What is Automation Good For?
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People are still struggling with justifying accounting automation (the definition of accounting automation is no paper invoices, an accounting system and no paper checks) . I have written it several times that the United States is one to three federal laws away from mass automation adoption. Until those laws are on the books, companies and…
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Definitions for Accounting Automation
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This won’t be the greatest article I have ever written. As a matter of fact it may have the least immediate benefit of any article I have written. On Monday (9/30/2013) I am starting a new series on Accounting Automation and what people, companies, accounting systems and situations are the best fit. In preparation of…
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Leaving Las Vegas and Thanks for the Time!
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Well my time in Vegas is over. I thought this year was going to be the year that I finally break down and do some gambling. I first watched a colleague run through $100 at a three card poker table in thirty- minutes and decided to get something to eat with my money instead. Leaving…
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I spoke on a panel yesterday – and here is what I said…
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I was asked to speak on a panel at the inaugural IOFM Payment Summit. IOFM has done a great job of assembling payment providers, accounting personnel and technologist to take three days to learn more about the future of the payment industry. The group that I spoke with had a wide range of experiences and…
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If Everything Stays in Vegas – Why are there so many cameras?
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I have always wondered how Las Vegas can get away with saying, “Everything that happens in Vegas – Stays in Vegas”. Las Vegas is the most photographed and videotaped city on the planet. Sure there is the army of impromptu journalist that at a moments notice will take out their smartphone and capture a moment in…
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Check out the Elmore kids reading…
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Well, the Princess and the Paper is almost ready for mass-distribution. I thought it would be entertaining to see my kids read a part of the book… enjoy – Kyle, Adelle, Ed and Ada reading and acting. Buy the book – The Argument to Automate – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire – click here to…
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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…