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The Do-It-Yourself Accounts Payable Consultant Handbook (2nd edition)
Looking to improve your accounts payable function? Not sure exactly where the problems are?
That's where the DIY AP Consultant Handbook can help. The greatly expanded 100+ page edition (with 25 diagnostic checklists) is finally here.
No one knows your organization better than you do. That’s why you are in the best position to make process improvements for your own operations. But, sometimes you are too close to identify those problem spots that have crept into your procedures.
That’s where The DIY Accounts Payable Consultant Handbook comes in. It provides you the added perspective to see your operation clearly. It effectively lets you take that giant step back so you can look at your accounts payable function objectively.
Use our straightforward problem-solving tools to uncover the weak spots in your processes. Once you’ve identified the problems, our commentary will get you started on the right path to fixing the problem by providing some best practice advice. You can use this to strengthen your controls preventing duplicate and erroneous payments and fraud. What’s more, you might even earn a few more early pay discounts.
Each section contains:
- Several analytical checklists to help you scrutinize the your processes to identify those areas that need attention;
- An explanation of why certain practices are not recommended and others are: and
- The latest thinking to help you develop the solution that is right for your operations
Regular Price: $129;
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Information about our consulting services is available here.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Invoices
• Invoice Handling Diagnostic
• Invoice Processing Diagnostic
• Best Practice Advice: Five Best Practices to
Eliminate Invoice Headaches
• Best Practice Advice: Are Paper Invoices Really Necessary?
AP Check Processes
• Exception Processing Diagnostic
• Check Request Forms Diagnostic
• Paper Check Safety Diagnostic
•Paper Check Elimination Checklist
• Best Practice Advice: From Printing to Mailing:
Do You Know Where Your Checks Are?
• Best Practice Advice: These Five Practices May be The Reason You Are Losing the Duplicate Payments War?
• Best Practice Advice: Practices to Avoid
Check Request Fraud and Duplicate Payments
• Best Practice Advice: A Five-Step Plan to
Get Rid of Rush Checks
AP Interdepartmental Processes:
• Identifying Problems in the Purchase-to-Pay Process Diagnostic
• Master Vendor File Diagnostic
•Does Your Accounts Payable Department Play Well with Others?
• Best Practice Advice: Master Vendor File Best Practices
• Best Practice Advice: 8 Simple Tactics to Reduce
Stress in the AP/Purchasing Relationship
Payments
• Payment Control Diagnostic
• ACH Diagnostic
• “Identifying Problems that Can Be Eliminated with e-Payments” Diagnostic
•P-card Missed Opportunity Diagnostic
• Best Practice Advice Payments Made Outside the Normal AP Process: A Control Disaster Waiting to Happen
• Best Practice Advice: Starting an ACH Payment
Program: What Better Time Than Now?
• Best Practice Advice: How An e-Payment Program
Can Improve Your Bottom line
Travel & Entertainment
• T&E Policy Diagnostic
•T&E Expense Policies that Meet IRS Guidelines while Combatting Fraud Diagnostic
• Avoiding a T&E Fraud Debacle Diagnostic
• Best Practice Advice: Seeing T&E as a Regulatory Issue
• Best Practice Advice: Sample T&E Best Practice Guidelines
Regulatory
•The Regulatory Diagnostic
•The 1099 Diagnostic
•Unclaimed Property Best Practice Diagnostic
•Best Practice Advice: Unclaimed Property
•Best Practice Advice: Tax Information Reporting
•Best Practice Advice: The ABCs of Unclaimed Property Audits and Auditors: What You Need to Know
Management Issues
• Fraud Deterrence/Prevention/Detection Diagnostic
• Electronic Accounts Payable Diagnostic
• Internal Control Best Practice Diagnostic
• Productivity Killer Checklist
• The Duplicate Payment and Recovery Best Practice Checklist
• The Worst Practice Checklist
• Best Practice Advice: Electronic AP: Eight Simple Tactics
Any Company Can Use
• Best Practice Advice: Looking for Fraud in All the Right Places
• Best Practice Advice: Segregation of Duties: How Much Access Do Your Employees Really Have?
• Best Practice Advice: 5 Ways to Protect Your Organization From Payment Fraud
• Best Practice Advice: A Marriage Made in Heaven:
10 Reasons to Put Imaging in Your Technology Upgrade
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