Career Development

IOFM invited financial operations leaders to participate in roundtable discussion on recruiting, hiring, and retaining qualified AP professionals.  Here is an overview of their exchange: 1. Have any… Read More

Judy Bicking and Linda Sisko share ideas for motivating your AP staff. In an IOFM poll, 50 percent of the respondents said that morale in their AP department was "good" or "great." That puts AP… Read More

Salary surveys are extremely useful because they help make sure you are offering salaries that are competitive in the marketplace. Otherwise, you risk losing good AP workers, and you can have trouble… Read More

Every month, it's the same thing. After weeks of struggling to keep up with invoices, expense reports, vendor file maintenance, and all the other responsibilities of running an accounts payable

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Every month, it's the same thing. After weeks of struggling to keep up with invoices, expense reports, vendor file maintenance, and all the other responsibilities of running an accounts payable… Read More

Q. (cont.) I'm looking for a general template for promoting an AP staffer, specifically from AP

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James Lallande, a senior AP manager for government contractor Dyncorp International, received a mandate to improve the company's cash flow position. This was no easy task, since his AP department

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If your department has a limited budget—or no budget at all—for team-building, but you want to do something to boost morale and build relationships, what do you do? A member asked us this… Read More

In most organizations, the financial operations department is faced with demanding and competing priorities for the last several months of the current fiscal year and the first couple months of the

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“If there is one thing I would like to tell all leaders at all levels and in all industries,” says author Todd Patkin, in addressing the issue of employee morale, “it’s that you have nothing… Read More

An IOFM AP & P2P Network member recently asked the following question, and the editorial staff at IOFM followed up with Network members and Advisory Panelists to see if there were indeed any "funny"… Read More