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8 most common filing mistakes that make you look silly

AP Association

When it comes to working in accounts payable, knowing the mistakes that can save you and your company money, time and productivity are essential. For example, if you're filing a vendor's invoices by date, use something like Jan-Mar or April-June instead of 2017/01 or 2017/04.

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Outsourcing Accounts Payable: The Pros and Cons

AvidXchange

When complications occur in your accounts payable processes, they can hamper your business growth. In the worst scenarios, a poorly performing accounts payable process can even be a liability to your company. What is Accounts Payable Outsourcing? Outsourcing accounts payable isn’t for everyone.

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How to Fight Accounts Payable Fraud

AvidXchange

Accounts payable fraud is a major problem. They’re taking advantage of the Digital Era’s easy access to private accounts and information in malicious ways that are easily overlooked. But as technology evolves, accounts payable automation (AP automation) is making it hard to crack the code to fraudulent AP attempts.

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Unlocking Financial Agility: The Power of Instant Payments for Small Business Bookkeepers

The Successful Bookkeeper

However, with the release of technologies such as instant payments facilitated by the FedNow Service and The Clearing House’s RTP Network, a significant paradigm shift will transform how accountants and bookkeepers manage their clients’ accounts receivables and accounts payable.

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The neXt Era: The Past is Prologue

AvidXchange

By 2003, their invoice approval software, AvidInvoice, was enabling companies to route invoices electronically and create intelligent workflows to automate their accounts payable processes. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Strongroom has provided accounts payable software solutions to over 200 small and midsize businesses since 2007.

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4 Reasons ePayments are Critical to the Future of B2B Commerce

AvidXchange

Businesses that adopt AP automation can reduce accounts payable and payment costs by up to 60 percent. Fraud risks If your organization continues to count on paper checks as the primary vendor payment method, accounts payable fraud is likely in your foreseeable future.

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Evaluating Your Procure-to-Pay Process to Prepare for Business Process Automation Software

NextProcess

In one 2017 survey, 69% of companies said they didn’t have full visibility into their supply chain, which is a key aspect of the P2P process. Rather, the software is a tool that a company’s procurement, receiving, and accounts payable staff use to support the company’s own individual process. accounts payable).