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The new accounts payable department & the future of payables

Future CFO

So, what does the New Accounts Payable department look like? The new accounts payable department has a more intense focus on cash flow and payment terms and takes a more disciplined approach to its financial processes to work toward optimising the cash conversion cycle. What has changed, and what changes are here to stay?

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Automate Or Stagnate: The Choice Accounts Payable Departments Face

PYMNTS

This stumbling block to innovation is often visible in accounts payable (AP) departments, Corcentric SVP of Sales Daniel Andrew told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Manual, paper-based invoicing systems are objectively worse in every metric when stacked against automated, digital AP systems that leverage straight-through processing.

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JPMorgan: Using Transaction Data To Help Merchants Optimize Cash Flow

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To achieve this objective, merchants can leverage payments data to better understand their customers’ behavior. Taking The Headache Out Of Cash Flow Forecasting. “If you see a trend in a very important customer segment that is accelerating, you want to know sooner rather than later to take corrective measures.”. Wimmer said J.P.

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Great Expectations For The AP Evolution

PYMNTS

The perception of the role of Accounts Payable among professionals has moved up a notch, according to Ardent Partners. Companies considered the AP unit as far less collaborative with the finance and treasury departments, researchers found. Professionals expect the accounts payable department to evolve.

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An Order-To-Cash Overhaul Is Coming For B2B Payments

PYMNTS

PYMNTS December 2020 Global B2B Payments Playbook done in collaboration with Worldpay makes a simple, somewhat baffling observation: “Many B2B payments are [still] being made over the same rails that firms have leveraged for decades, utilizing familiar payment tools and being supported by the same pre- and post-payment systems.”.

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For Improving Financials, Putting Big Data Into Context Is Key

PYMNTS

The potential cannot be ignored, however – particularly in the finance department, where information from accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury and accounting hold the keys to insight into cash flow, predictable payment behavior and new opportunities to boost the bottom line.

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ERP and EPM Systems – Better Together

Planful

Accounts payable. Accounts receivable and collections management. Treasury and cash management. General ledger accounting. Orchestrating and managing a rolling forecast process. Let’s take a look at how an EPM suite handles some of these processes – starting with budgeting, planning, and forecasting.