TOPIC OF FOCUS: METRICS
Three Lines of Defense model clarifies roles in managing risk
The premise of the model is that each area within the company has a clearly defined and specific role. When each performs its assigned task effectively, the likelihood that a risk will slip past all...
Perceptive Software releases Perceptive Interact for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Top 20 U.S. cash management bank to deploy enhanced eGistics distributed exceptions management application
eGistics' Client Decisioning Module Speeds Receivables Posting through Advanced Transaction Validation, New Tools for Resolving Exceptions
10 key steps to repairing a broken process
If you believe your budgeting process takes far too long, that budget managers see no real benefit in the whole process, and that finance usually does most of the work with little buy-in from...
What the AP productivity index can tell you about shared services
To understand why shared services centers are both more efficient and effective at AP, let's look at a few of the factors that seem to influence AP performance: volume, industry, and geography.
Minding the metrics: Leaders look at innovative ways to manage cash
Organizations' top finance leaders are studying their books harder than ever, trying to divine new truths. Some are even looking at new metrics, like days credits outstanding.
What keeps your CFO awake at night?
CFOs have evolved from counting house foremen to cash cardiologists, keeping the lifeblood of the company flowing.
Measuring performance in AP: A new productivity index
The AP Productivity Index, announced in May, is the first tool of its kind to gauge ...
Go beyond DSO for metrics to gauge your AR performance
Instead of being a pure receivables metric, DSO measures how fast the receivables are turning over within the context of sales.
The shared services approach: Interest grows in combining financial operations
These days, companies with multiple business units are increasingly consolidating accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other financial functions such as payroll and procurement into one...
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Financial supply chain automation coming of age?
The benefits from financial supply-chain management solutions include lower end-to-end supply-chain costs, working capital optimization, and shorter cash-to-cash cycles.
Lockbox processors hold the key to faster AR processing
2011 - Accounts Payable Automation Study (sponsors: see report)
This survey takes a deep dive into the adoption of emerging technologies and best practices in accounts payable (AP) automation. The findings of this annual survey provide readers with unique insights...
2009 - Document Management Study (sponsors: see report)
The TAWPI/IAPP Document Management Study provides comparative information covering document prep, imaging, recognition and key entry, workflow, archival, retrieval and retention, disaster recovery,...
2009 - AP Automation Study (sponsor: Hyland Software)
IAPP's AP Automation Study, produced in conjunction with Hyland Software, Inc., identifies where the accounts payable profession stands today in its use of technology, where it's headed in the future,...