Invoice Matching

By Pam Miller, APMD Looking for more effective and more efficient ways to get the job done? Take a look at these AP “tricks of the trade” that have been successfully used in AP departments just

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By Pam Miller, APMD - With the large number of invoices flowing through AP, the opportunities to make mistakes are great. Little mistakes—and sometimes colossal mistakes—leave a residue of bad… Read More

As a one-person AP department, Heather Kiefer Kennedy has to make sure she is working as efficiently and effectively as possible. Kennedy has been Accounting/Inventory Manager at Choice… Read More

When a return merchandise authorization (RMA) from a vendor is not tied to the proper purchase order that accompanied the initial purchase, this can result in confusion, payment and credit errors,

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Duplicate invoices are much more than a bookkeeping nuisance. They can also seriously chip away at the bottom line. "When duplicate invoices aren't detected, it can cause blocked invoices and… Read More

Certain errors are common to freight billing. Being aware of what they are and taking steps to prevent them can positively impact your bottom line. Following are the errors, their causes and

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The four-person AP department at the Phoenix office of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona supports 1,600 employees who are scattered among five different buildings. Having different buildings was

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Improving With Enthusiasm Problems with PO numbers recently led the AP department at Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Inc. (Indianapolis) to implement a smart new self-service PO process,

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By Anne Brannan, AJA Video Systems, Inc. (Grass Valley, California) - A few years after becoming company AP clerk at AJA Video Systems, AP noticed that missed invoices were occurring more frequently… Read More

Compared to manual processes, imaging has many benefits when it comes to invoice receipt and data extraction. When implemented with workflow, imaging greatly simplifies the approval process, since it

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