TOPIC OF FOCUS: ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
The changing landscape: Robert Half predicts 2014 salaries
U.S. salaries for professional occupations are projected to increase an average of 3.7 percent next year, with accounting and finance professionals seeing slightly less of an increase at an average of...
AOC Solutions and 3Delta Systems join forces to launch AR-Exchange for buyers and suppliers
Kofax launches industry’s first smart process application for accounts payable automation
IRS is beefing up security of external network computer connections, report says
The IRS has been beefing up its security measures and is making progress toward complying with a directive to improve the security of external network connections, according to a report issued in...
PRGX announces departure of President and CEO Romil Bahl from recovery audit firm
The president and CEO of PRGX Global (Nasdaq:PRGX), Romil Bahl, has left the company, according to an announcement released Nov. 15. The Atlanta-based recovery audit services firm has named Ronald...
A Herculean task: Vendor management has grown in scope
Effective vendor management is so much more than simply maintaining a sparkly master vendor file. That’s an important task, to be sure, and one that can often seem like the little-known 13th Labor of...
Creating a growth challenge for 2014
We heard a comment on TV, posted it on Facebook, and generated an interesting array of reactions, both pro and con. The gist of the comment was that the reason we are tested in life is that testing...
Records and information management is not just for destruction and defense anymore
While organizations are far from getting rid of all their paper, many are making a conscious effort to do more electronically, which means they are producing even more data than ever before. Companies...
With VAT, it seems there is nowhere to go but up
In the Olympic games, spectators marvel every four years as contenders raise the bar, adding in higher jumps, more turns, faster speeds. The world’s value-added tax systems present that same kind of...
Confessions of a paperholic: Identifying the problem with paper
Hi. My name is Drew, and I’m a Paperholic. I do not own a Kindle or an iPad, and I have never read an eBook. My driveway is one of three houses on my block with a daily newspaper sitting on the...
Make a time management audit part of your AR department's survival kit
With so much to do, credit, collection, and AR professionals need to make efficient use of their time. That's not an easy task considering the multi-faceted requirements necessary to manage the...
Falling in love again with your existing technology
One of the biggest challenges to increasing technology reuse isn’t technological, but cultural. Reusing technology isn’t seen as “sexy” compared to developing new applications. That’s not surprising....
Weyerhaeuser AP team steps up to the challenge and transforms its process
The accounts payable team at Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world’s largest forest products manufacturers, was humming along just fine. But a benchmarking project a few years ago indicated there...
All-volunteer Remittance Coalition works to simplify B2B transactions
When it comes to collecting payments from customers, most companies prefer — understandably — to be paid as quickly as possible. Even so, electronic methods that can cut days from paper payment...
IRS releases new details on FATCA guidance for foreign financial institutions
The IRS has released a document that provides guidance for foreign financial institutions of their responsibilities under agreements governed by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Accounts...