Impress Your CFO: What AR Needs to Know

Every CFO knows that technology implementations that deliver quick ROI without requiring a huge time investment for IT or other internal resources are the lowest risk and biggest reward. 56% of CFOs say strategic technology investments will improve their companies’ long-term performance, with 54% planning to make remote work a permanent option. As businesses transition to a post COVID environment with historically low cost of funds, buy-in for solutions that streamline accounts receivable is there. The single biggest remaining obstacle for most companies is IT resource availability. 

How can you overcome this obstacle and reap the rewards of more scalable, efficient, and cost-effective collections and cash application?

In this dynamic panel discussion, you will learn how to:

• Uncover the hard and soft costs of manual accounts receivable and cash application to build your ROI model
• Understand the “must-haves” and “gotchas” for an AR automation project, so you know what to look for and what to avoid as you plan yours
• De-mystify how AI, machine learning, and mobile play a role in your AR strategy
• Blow your CFO away by achieving transformational improvements in employee productivity, sales, customer relationship management, cost reduction, controls, and cash management

Bill Wardwell II
President, DadeSystems

Bill leverages his 15 years of experience in payments, banking, and financial technology to help business solve their most pressing payments challenges. He has worked with businesses and banks of all sizes in his leadership roles across payments product management, sales, operations, business development and strategy. Before he joined DadeSystems, Bill was COO of the Paymode-X line of business at Bottomline Technologies. Prior to Bottomline Bill held management positions in Bank of America’s Global Treasury Services area with a focus on Global Card and Integrated Payables solutions.

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates

Over the past 26 years, Mark has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation. A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and service providers on how to use automation to improve document and payment driven business processes. Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards. He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.