Accounts Payable: A Guide to Running an Efficient Department

  • 5h 11m
  • Mary S. Ludwig
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 1999

In today's competitive environment, corporate America is looking for ways to cut costs, improve cash flow and productivity--it is turning its eye to accounts payable. This is the first comprehensive book on running an effective A/P department.

These are demanding times for workers everywhere and those in the accounts payable profession may be challenged more than some of their peers in other more established professions. The new tools and techniques discussed in this text will help them meet those challenges, or should we say, opportunities.

In this Book

  • Invoice Handling
  • Check Preparation Printing and Filing
  • Exception and Rush Processing
  • Errors and Duplicate Payments
  • Paying When the Original Invoice Is Not Available
  • Making Your Accounts Payable Department First Rate
  • Managing the Staff
  • Staff Motivation and Morale
  • Working with/for Purchasing and Other Departments
  • Master Vendor Files
  • Terms and Taking Discounts
  • Payment Timing
  • Audits and the Outside Accountant's Management Letter
  • Alternatives to the Three-Way Match
  • Handling Employee Travel and Entertainment Reports
  • Electronic Travel and Entertainment Handling
  • VAT Refunds
  • Electronic Data Interchange
  • Software
  • Imaging
  • Internet and E-mail
  • Purchasing Card
  • Post Audit Firms
  • Benchmarking
  • 1099s
  • Petty Cash
  • Making International Payments
  • Check Fraud
  • Employee Fraud
  • Vendor Fraud
  • Professionalism in the Field
  • Success Stories
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