Thank you to everyone who attended our AP in the AM breakfast seminar on June 6!  We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful.  

We would like to extend a huge thank you to Henry Ijams, Founder and Managing Director of PayStream Advisors, and Sander Mueller, Chief Strategy Officer of Anybill, for the excellent presentations. They covered industry trends and considerations when building an automated AP department. Stay tuned for the date of the next Anybill event!

Date     Thursday, June 6, 2013
Time     8:00 am: Breakfast and Networking
              8:30 am: Presentations

Place    Dupont Circle Hotel
              The Heights at Level Nine
              1500 New Hampshire Avenue NW
              Washington, DC 20036

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On January 29th, we will be kicking off our complimentary 4-part webinar series with AP Now & Tomorrow. Mary Schaeffer will discuss the tools that you need to ensure that you are starting the year off strong.

Register today for this month's webinar and join us throughout the year as we continue the series!

Part 1 -- Invoice Processing in Accounts Payable: Start the Year Strong

Let’s face it; no matter how advanced your accounts payable function is, at the end of the day, its primary responsibility is to process invoices, and to process them efficiently in a cost-effective manner. This means making as few mistakes as possible. In this session, Mary S. Schaeffer, a nationally recognized accounts payable expert, will tear apart the invoice processing function and identify common mistakes made repeatedly by many organizations.

She’ll share solutions (including low and no-cost options) any organization can use to strengthen its processes so the same mistakes are not made over and over again – eating voraciously into the bottom line. While we hope no organization will have all the problems identified, we’re fairly confident most will have at least one or two.

If you are interested in improving your organization’s bottom line, this is one session you can’t afford to miss.

REGISTER HERE!

Making Accounts Payable a Valuable Contributor to the Bottom Line

“... accounts payable is no longer the cost center of years past but can be, with the right technology, a valuable contributor to the bottom line.” - Peter Bepler, President of Anybill

Read the full article here!

The end of the 2012 fiscal year is right around the corner and for everyone in accounts payable we know that can mean pure chaos.  Lucky for you, we’ve put together a comprehensive webinar, featuring Mary Schaeffer of Accounts Payable Now and Tomorrow, that will help make this a less traumatizing experience. On November 13^th we will share over a dozen of year-end strategies and tactics that have been implemented and proven to work for companies just like yours. Think of it as a year-end survival kit that will help you conquer the deadlines and angst. Register today and close the year with ease and remove that feeling of "impending doom".

Register here and join us on the 13th!

Anybill will be partnering again with AP expert Mary Schaeffer of Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow to bring you our new webinar, Accounts Payable Efficiency: It’s All in the Controls. The cornerstone to an efficient, effective department is in the controls and this is a webinar the AP community shouldn’t miss out on.

Ms. Schaeffer will cover the following issues:

• Why every organization needs to concerned about controls
• Common control problems and weaknesses many organizations experience
• Solutions that will strengthen your controls.

Are you in control? Register today and join us on Thursday, September 20th at 1pm EST!
 

Anybill has partnered with The Aberdeen Group to bring you their newest research report: AP Invoice Management in a Networked Economy.

Download your complimentary copy of the report valued at $399 today and explore how over 180 companies are providing a clear example of the benefits driven by managing AP as a wider, networked economy.

The report discovered how Best-in-Class companies are leading the way toward improving both the internal and external facets of their financial operations.

• Increase Straight-Through Invoice Processing
• Pay More Invoices On Time
• Reduce Invoice Processing Costs

Get your free download here!

To compete, nonprofits must consider outsourcing accounting, tech operations

With dwindling resources and greater demand for transparency from the Internal Revenue Service and funding sources, nonprofits in New Jersey will need to invest in strategic planning and outsource accounting and technology operations to improve their financial performance in 2012, a nonprofit services executive with The Mercadien Group said.

By Katie Eder

Read Full Article Here.

If you’re an Accounts Payable professional, your attention shifted from 2011 to 2012 some time ago. But…what key trends influenced your planning for this year? How do you plan for a future that includes economic uncertainty, legislative change and technological revolution? AP Now’s editorial director, Mary Schaeffer, has selected five “hot issues” every AP professional needs to focus on.

• Issue #1: Fraud. Among the most significant threats: sophisticated Eastern European crooks are zeroing in on the ACH and those working in AP to commit electronic thefts. It’s essential these frauds be detected quickly as banks are unlikely to reverse unauthorized transactions after 24 hours.
   
• Issue #2: Accounts Payable Automation. Impending changes at the US Post Office make it likely we’ll see at least a one-day increase in delivery time for first class mail. This will have a huge impact on businesses relying on the USPS for receipt and delivery of invoices and payments.
   
• Issue #5: Your Professional Future. Want to make yourself essential to your employer? Develop new strategic skills. Identify development opportunities and learn how to persuasively make a case for a piece of the training budget.

Explore all 5 “hot issues” here: Emerging Concerns in 2012 for Accounts Payable.