Career Development

Are you having occasional challenges finding the right tone and approach to use with some of your younger AP staffers? And do you wonder about what incentives work best to recruit and retain works… Read More

AP managers experience a great deal of stress just keeping up with their many daily responsibilities, but the stress gets kicked up several notches when there’s constant change to contend with as

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Did you ever wish you had a bunch of “workaholics” in your AP department? Well, be careful what you wish for. Workaholics can wreak havoc in terms of lost productivity, increased health-care… Read More

It’s getting to be that time of the year—when you have to do those employee performance appraisals. In the past, AP managers may have given this task little attention. But growing productivity… Read More

While all AP managers agree it is necessary to screen job candidates before making an offer, is it OK for you to use search engines or social networking sites in the process? According to experts, it

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By Pam Miller, APMD Here’s the scenario: a new company hits town and sets up a large AP or shared services shop. To accomplish their goal quickly, they look for existing organizations, with an eye

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By Pam Miller, APMD When you are interviewing an AP candidate, there are many things you may want to ask, but can't. For example, you may not ask where a candidate was born, or ask about citizenship

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Many AP executives operate under the assumption that the AP status quo will last indefinitely. The fact is, change is very common these days. The question is, when change comes, will you be… Read More

By Pam Miller - Web meeting software provides an attractive solution for training Accounts Payable's internal and external customers, because it enables parties in different locations to share… Read More

It’s a fact of life that many AP managers are having to “do more with less,” and that challenge becomes even more difficult when AP is informed that it will be required to reduce staff levels.… Read More