November 2025: What AP Can Learn From AR

In this economy, the leadership of financial operations teams are increasingly focused on AR’s credit and collections challenges. Learning how AR teams succeed during trying times can provide ideas for improvement for AP. 

This Month's Quick Take: What AP Can Learn from AR

• Relationship management. Look at how AR handles customers for ways you can improve your rapport with vendors. Improved communication can lead to faster issue resolution, more favorable payment terms, and better service. 

EXCLUSIVE MEMBER WEBINAR – Building No-Cost AI Finance Tools: How AP & AR Teams Can Create Tools and Training with ChatGPT and Copilot

AI isn’t just for companies with massive automation budgets. The biggest breakthroughs in finance operations today are happening with free, widely available tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable teams that know how to harness these platforms are already slashing manual workloads, speeding up reporting, and uncovering insights that used to take hours and mounds of spreadsheets. 

This session won’t just talk about AI—it’ll show you, step by step, how AP and AR professionals are already putting it to work today. If your team is under pressure to do more with less, this is your roadmap to unlock productivity, improve accuracy, and build AI confidence across your department. 

While the examples used in this webinar are AR-focused, the same prompts demonstrated can help you build (free!) AP tools, such as: 

• Invoice Aging Calculator 
• Vendor Spend Dashboards 
• Invoice Processing Time Trackers 
• Supplier Inquiry Response Template Generators 
• Payment Terms Analyzers 
• AP Closing Checklists 
• Duplicate Invoice Detectors 
• Early-Pay Discount Trackers

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IOFM AP and AR Advisory Panelists Speak: Are Your Ideas Heard?

A recent survey of AP and AR professionals reveals that upper management is largely open to their input on process improvements — as long as recommendations are well-researched and clearly tied to organizational impact. The findings highlight the growing value that financial operations teams bring to strategic decision-making. 

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Fraud Fighting Essentials: Tools & Insights from IOFM

Cash-Flow Management Methods for AP and AR Departments

AP and AR managers are on the front lines in the company's battle to manage cash flow. Their responsibilities break down into two parts: to implement and oversee their department's tactics, and to watch for and report challenges and opportunities. Read this article to explore ways that AP and AR managers can fulfill both of these responsibilities. 

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Winning Tomorrow’s AR Battles Today: Turning Tariff Risk into Financial Success

Tariffs are a direct hit to your customers’ margins, payment behaviors, and ultimately your receivables. Accounts Receivable professionals are on the front lines of this disruption, yet most organizations still treat tariffs as a trade compliance issue instead of a financial risk. That blind spot is dangerous. Discover how your AR team can move from a passive recipient of tariff fallout to an active driver of resilience and competitive advantage. 

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