TOPIC OF FOCUS: CASH MANAGEMENT
ACOM announces an industry breakthrough with one single enterprise content management platform
Business commerce and e-payment networks accelerate the speed of business
In today’s fast-paced business environment, most organizations are moving quite slowly when it comes to invoicing and payments. While there are many factors that contribute to this problem –...
It's all about plastic: P-card use is on the rise
Like many consumers, more organizations are moving to plastic. Annual purchasing card spending in North America is expected to jump from about $196 billion in 2011 to $290 billion by 2016, according...
For the smartest answers, ask the secondary questions first
Typically an answer to a question already exists somewhere — if you can track it down. This approach, called “secondary research,” involves digging for information, vetting the data you find, and...
Boston University Sourcing & Procurement enables electronic faxing out of SAP® using Esker Cloud Fax Services
Thinking about remote deposit capture for your AR operation? Here is a checklist
Every business has unique needs that require different approaches. Before evaluating your bank’s RDC offerings, you should determine your requirements and then use a checklist to clarify what your...
Mail service cutbacks leave AR and AP teams sorting out the issues
The U.S. Postal Service has undergone some dramatic changes in the past couple of years, and accounts receivable departments are bracing for the delivery of additional adjustments that will affect the...
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...
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...
Settlements: Making a friend out of a potential foe
Accounts receivable professionals know that not every deal begins and ends as planned. Customers have a variety of reasons for not paying a bill. Some of the reasons are easily addressed, such as when...
The changing landscape: Robert Half predicts 2014 financial ops 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...
Supplier Communication Study (in collaboration with ABBYY - 2013) 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...
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...
Sorting it out: Cutbacks at U.S. Postal Service continue to challenge AR and AP
The U.S. Postal Service has undergone some dramatic changes in the past couple of years, and accounts receivable departments are bracing for the delivery of additional adjustments that will affect the...
Paperholics Anonymous: A 12-step program for kicking the paper invoice habit
Paperholism is a corporate malady afflicting AP departments across the globe. It is almost endemic in its scope! Many try to ignore the problem or pretend it doesn’t exist by saying things like,...
U.S. Bank partners with Chrome River to simplify expense management
Agreement gives U.S. Bank clients a new option for understanding and controlling corporate travel spend...
Elavon and U.S. Bank address top travel-industry concerns: complexity of globalization and the cost of getting paid
