July, 2021

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The DNA of an Accounts Payable Department: By Alistair Nicholas, Managing Director, Esker Northern Europe

AP Association

The Accounts Payable (AP) function is a critical backbone for managing cashflow and fostering business resilience within an organisation – but what of the people, processes and environment that make up AP? In conjunction with Jamie Radford, the founder of Accounts Payable Association and APTV, Esker have created a series of short videos, looking not only at this genetic make-up, but also how AP has changed across the past 10 years, and will continue to do so into the future.

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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE RECOVERY AUDITS – WHAT ARE THEY AND WHY SHOULD THEY BE CONSIDERED A BEST PRACTICE?

The Institute of Financial Operations

WHAT IS AN ACCOUNTS PAYABLE RECOVERY AUDIT? Quite simply, it is a review of your Accounts Payable historical data for the purpose of identifying and recovering funds paid to your vendors and suppliers resulting from overpayments and under-deductions. The reasons for these erroneous payments are numerous and areas of recovery can include duplicate or wrong payments, open/unapplied supplier credits, unrecorded accruals/rebates/allowances, contract/purchase order terms compliance, pricing errors, m

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How To Create A Cloud Center Of Excellence (CCOE)

CloudZero

Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is an important milestone in every company’s cloud computing journey. While it is usually not the first milestone — which is focused on delivering value to customers — this milestone is reached as the company grows and scales.

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How Continuous Audit Tech Will Save Your Business Money Now

Brigade

It happens all the time. There’s a gym membership you’ve been meaning to cancel. You still subscribe to streaming channels that you don’t watch anymore. And slowly but surely, you are losing money and creating a budgeting nightmare. All those unnecessary recurring charges add up– yikes!

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Here's How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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How to Maximize Profitability Outsourcing Your Books

SLC Bookkeeping

What we are going to look at today is how to maximize profitability by outsourcing bookkeeping. Profitability is more than just revenue minus expenses. It can be difficult to see how spending money ultimately creates more value and wealth in a business, but we'll break down how it saves time, increases overall revenue, and can help you maximize the profitability of your business.

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Tips for taking on a massive Undeposited Funds cleanup in QBO

5 Minute Bookkeeping

If you’re looking for the best tips for taking on a massive undeposited funds cleanup in QuickBooks Online, this is the blog post for you. You may have recently taken on a QBO cleanup client and noticed that they have hundreds of old transactions in undeposited funds. Before you attempt to clean it up, let’s take a look at what you need to know so you can take on this project with confidence.

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My Ten Craziest Payables Stories

Oversight

An excerpt from “The Autobiographical Account of the World’s Most Controversial Employee” I have to confess: I’m not the only one living big. Indeed, there are thousands of us riding the lack of institutional control over fraud, misuse and waste to great advantage at my company, and indeed throughout the endless landscape of the 21st-century industry.

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What Is AWS Monitoring? 8 Best Practices To Get You Started

CloudZero

Migrating to the cloud provides cost, scalability, performance, maintenance, and other engineering and IT benefits. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) stands out as the most popular cloud platform, offering an advanced public cloud with robust services that are easy to integrate with your existing workflows.

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7 Ways A Financial Audit Will Help Keep Your Business On Track

Brigade

Success starts with a good financial strategy.

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Why Your Organization Needs Structured Payment Plans

RevCycle

Healthcare consumerism and patient responsibility have seen a coinciding rise over the last decade plus. The COVID-19 pandemic served to exacerbate the difficulties many patients face with their out-of-pocket balances. The following excerpt is from a recent Forbes article : “ According to interviews AccessOne conducted with 47 healthcare billing executives, 43% of providers reported increases in patient requests for payment plans even as hospitals face their own financial struggles, and 40% repo

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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Ep. 133: Hilla Sferruzza - The CFO's Four Lines of Sight

IMA's Count Me

Contact Hilla Sferruzza: [link] Meritage Homes: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam (00:05): Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Count Me In. IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. Adam Larson here with you again, and I'm pleased to introduce today's featured guest speaker Hilla Sferruzza. Hilla is the CFO of Meritage Homes and spoke with my co-host Mitch about the role of today's CFOs.

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Real Estate Experts Offer Insight to Help Navigate ‘New Normal’

AvidXchange

As a real estate finance pro, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed given how your world has changed in the last year. Chances are your business operates differently now. Employees are more spread out geographically than ever before and you’re grasping for any sense of control you can find. The good news is you can overcome all of this. To help you along the way, three real estate executives recently got together to talk about what’s new – and different – in real estate during AvidXchange’s quarte

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Spend Risk Examined: CFOs, Spend Optimization, and Shifting Tides in Tech

Oversight

Oversight released a new episode of its podcast series, “Spend Risk Examined”, which discusses our recent study commissioned by Oversight and conducted by Forrester Consulting, entitled “Minimize Risk and Maximize Gains Through Spend Optimization Solutions.

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The 15 Best CFO Tools For Managing Software Financials

CloudZero

As businesses evolve thanks to technology advances, so must the role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.

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Intuit TurboTax Drops Out of IRS Free File

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Practice Ignition: [link] AFO Wealth Management Forward: [link] Odoo: [link] Show Notes Live from NOLA – The Cloud Accounting Podcast is on the road again! 5:25 – Banks Are Reversing Course on PPP Loans to Small Business Owners [link] 6:47 – We’ve got Voicemail! Thank you, Ray! 7:32 – This Way to CPA [link] 9:15 – TurboTax-Maker Intuit Will Leave Free Tax Filing Partnership With IRS [link] 13:20 – Accelerating Technology Innovation to Better Help Consumers Solve Their Most Pr

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5 Benefits of Digital Accounting with Precision

Dext

My specialism is getting people onto cloud accounting systems, and making sure they use it in the best way.

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Ep. 132: James Stark - CFO Skills and Competencies

IMA's Count Me

Contact James Stark: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam (00:00): Welcome back to Count Me In , IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I'm your host, Adam Larson and today I will be previewing a conversation between my co-host Rouba and her special guest, James Stark. In this episode, James shares his insight and views on the challenging global landscape and the must have skills for CFOs.

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CFO Survey Reveals Widespread Support for AP Digitization

AvidXchange

A staggering 96 percent of CFOs can’t be wrong, right? Let us explain. A recent survey conducted by PYMNTS.com and VersaPay polled 400 chief financial officers (CFOs) to find out what they’re thinking about a wide range of timely and important business and technology issues. From how much they use digital accounts payable (AP) processes, to invoice and payment processes they want to digitize, to the biggest obstacles they’re facing, this is a full-blown exploration of the current state of mind o

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How To Break Digital Transformation Barriers And Accelerate AI Adoption

Speaker: Anna Tiomina, MBA

AI is reshaping industries, yet finance remains one of the slowest adopters. Concerns over compliance, legacy systems, and data silos have made finance teams hesitant to embrace AI-driven transformation. But delaying adoption isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about staying competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. How can finance leaders overcome these challenges and start leveraging AI effectively?

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July Spend Insights Report Depicts State of Business Travel

Oversight

Oversight continued to observe notable shifts in spend behaviors and trends in the recent months. As the vaccination rate increases, business travel begins to recover and new spend patterns and potential risk emerge. In our July Spend Insights Report, we shared findings uncovered in the second quarter of 2021.

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Kubernetes Monitoring Explained: 10+ Tools To Get You Started

CloudZero

Kubernetes is the platform of choice for orchestrating containerized applications. It’s ideal for large applications running on distributed instances. But you likely already knew that because if you are weighing Kubernetes monitoring tools, you know what Kubernetes (K8s) is and why it is useful.

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The End of the Beginning for Cloud with Ben Richmond of Xero

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Follow Ben Richmond [link] [link] Get in Touch Thanks for listening and for the great reviews! We appreciate you! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary. Find us on Facebook and, if you like what you hear, please do us a favor and write a review on iTunes , or Podchaser. Interested in sponsoring the Cloud Accounting Podcast? For details, read the prospectus , and NOW, you can see our smiling faces on Instagram !

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Middle East Shifting Focus Toward Renewable Energy to Boost Economy

NACM

The Middle East has relied on the production and distribution of oil for decades to sustain its economy. Now, with GDP projecting a decrease in oil and non-oil growth in the coming years, that production is expected to decline as the Gulf region prepares to invest more in renewable energy sources."We reject the false choice between preserving.

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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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Ep. 131: Marco Otti - Budgeting Revisited

IMA's Count Me

Contact Marco Otti: [link] Budgeting Revisited: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Mitch: (00:00) Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I'm your host Mitch Roshong and this is episode 131 of our series. For today's conversation my co-host Adam spoke with Marco Otti about possible solutions in different approaches to budgeting.

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Robotic Process Automation: The Meaning, Myths & Truths of RPA

AvidXchange

There are several misconceptions about robotic process automation (RPA), how it works and why it’s important in the context of accounts payable (AP) automation. We’re here to address those misconceptions, reveal the truth and outline how RPA can benefit your business and the market. Robotic Process Automation Misconceptions There’s a tendency to think about RPA through a narrow technological lens as a software tool for automating repetitive work processes.

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What Is Cloud Orchestration? 8 Tools To Get You Started

CloudZero

Automation in the cloud has a number of benefits that helps you save time and eliminate human error.

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What Is FinOps? And How Does It Compare To DevOps?

CloudZero

Every couple years, it seems the tech industry mashes together different team names to make up the latest discipline — whether it’s DevOps, DevSecOps, AIOps, or most recently, NoOps. The names can seem eye roll-worthy at first.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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What Is Container Orchestration? (+ 4 Top Container Tools)

CloudZero

Containerization is gaining traction across nearly all industries and company sizes worldwide. In fact, the 2019 edition of Portworx’s annual Containers Adoption Survey report showed over 87% of surveyed organizations were using container technologies. Over 90% of them use containerization in production.

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Why SaaS Companies Are Reporting Weaker Margins Than They Need To

CloudZero

SaaS companies are known for their strong margins. With gross margins typically in the 60-90% range, even SaaS companies with comparatively weaker margins have a compelling business model when compared with most other industries.

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AWS Lambda Explained: The Complete Guide To Using Lambda

CloudZero

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 services. But AWS Lambda continues to stand out for several reasons. This AWS Lambda tutorial will help explain Lambda in simple terms so you can decide if the service is suitable for your computing needs.

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What Is Lift And Shift Migration? (And Is It Right For You?)

CloudZero

There are several ways to migrate to the cloud today — None of which are an equal path to modernizing on-premises applications and workflows. Lift and shift migration promises cost savings, speed, and less effort compared to other cloud migration strategies.

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Smarter Card Solutions: Meeting the Challenges of Mid-Market Travel & Expense

Our 2025 Center Travel Survey is clear: as corporate travel increases, so does corporate credit cards distribution, and a rise in off-platform travel booking. This 61% rise causes various challenges: compliance, spend control, reporting problems, and a lack of visibility across organizations. To evolve with the ever-changing needs of travelers, decision-makers need a better solution.