Career Development

Tiering the AP specialist position to allow for growth

Q. I am working on a project for my Accounts Payable team in regards to compensation and growth. We are looking at is making the AP Specialist position tiered to allow for growth and… Read More

Setting Boundaries in the Workplace

By Pam Miller, APMD In a department like AP, staff members need to cooperate to complete daily tasks. Working so closely together, there is a tendency to share personal information about spouses,… Read More

Two Important Management Skills to Master: Delegation and Empowerment

By Pam Miller, APMD - Managers who have mastered the arts of delegation and empowerment are likely to find that their staffs outperform those of managers who have not done so. Delegation is an… Read More

Who Says AP & P2P Folks Have No Fun?

An IOFM member recently asked the following question, and the editorial staff at IOFM followed up with members and Advisory Panelists to see if there were indeed any "funny" stories out there to

Inspired Team-Building: Fun With the 'Scavenger Lunch'

By Pam Miller, APMD It’s a well-known fact that AP folks like to eat. Birthdays, celebrations of accomplishments, even extremely tough days all call for food. So what better way to construct a… Read More

Numbers and Statistics Don’t Address the People Side of AP

By Pam Miller, APMD Most AP departments are staffed by a group of people who may or may not have anything in common besides the fact that they work in AP. AP staffers may be young with little actual… Read More

Should Your Staff Be Salaried?

Raising AP’s status in the eyes of others, particularly management, is not an easy task, as just about any AP professional will tell you. One AP interviewee recently said: "You have to really love… Read More

Finding and Hiring the Best Personnel

David A. Brookmire, President Corporate Performance Strategies - Many of you know from experience that the recruiting and selection process is sometimes more of an art than a science. There is an… Read More

Team-Building Ideas That Cost Little or Nothing

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

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Building a Motivated, Engaged AP Staff

Tracy Zurcher, APM, District Manager, Atlantic District at FedEx Ground CPC, is passionate about AP staff motivation and engagement. “All of AP’s processes build upon one another and rely on the… Read More