MineralTree

JANUARY 25, 2024

The past year in finance was riddled with economic uncertainty, accompanied by challenges like staffing constraints and the need to optimize efficiency with limited resources. For finance professionals, understanding this landscape is crucial. This blog takes a deeper dive into 7 accounts payable trends that will help shape 2024.

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MineralTree

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Today’s fast-paced business landscape demands unprecedented levels of efficiency and accuracy, especially in the finance sector. To keep pace with these changes, it’s imperative for financial functions to rethink their processes to boost productivity.

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MineralTree

MARCH 14, 2024

However, many companies still rely on manual processes to manage accounts payable—and these outdated practices are causing problems across their financial operations. A manual approach slows down the payment process and increases the risk of errors and fraud while jeopardizing relationships with strategic vendors.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 14, 2023

The lingering (although receding) risk of a recession, stubborn inflation trends, economic policy debates, and geopolitical instability all create challenges for businesses and their finance teams. This unpredictability requires businesses to ensure maximum efficiency in their finance operations.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 24, 2023

Whether you’re in the midst of digital transformation or just beginning to explore, you’re probably seeing new opportunities to improve your company’s AP processes with the help of technology. Speak to the costs of manual invoice processing and the benefits of automating it.

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MineralTree

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Maintaining finance department efficiency is a constant challenge, especially for teams that rely on legacy technology and manual processes. The good news is that technological advancements have made it possible for finance departments to increase productivity and to do more with less.

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MineralTree

AUGUST 24, 2023

Are you relying on the current accounts payable (AP) workflow in QuickBooks Desktop or Online to manage your financial operations? The QuickBooks AP workflow includes tasks like invoice receipt, data entry, approval, and payment required to manage AP within the software. If so, you’re not alone.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 17, 2023

When they enter middle school, you’ll hear a few say they’ll go into accounting, but “I want to be a finance major and get an MBA” — not to mention becoming a Chief Financial Officer — just isn’t in their vocabulary. Technology is the apparent direction in which to look. That should come as no surprise.

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Accounting Insight

JANUARY 8, 2024

The rise of invoice fraud will prompt closer collaboration between finance and security teams. To help this collaboration, businesses should take steps such as implementing AI and automation tools to detect any suspicious activities or anomalies within the Accounts Payable (AP) process.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Add in the ongoing war in Ukraine, inflation, and rising interest rates and finance leaders find their departments squarely in the spotlight. In response, finance teams are keeping a close eye on their balance sheets, taking fewer risks, and focusing more on efficiency and value over growth.

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Cherry Bekaert

MARCH 22, 2024

For finance leadership and teams, this requires constantly analyzing, reforecasting, rethinking new data, and determining new approaches to drive business. No matter your industry, organizations must automate and streamline core financial management functions. Create automated, configurable processes to enhance internal controls.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Legacy accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) operations aren’t only inefficient, they’re costly. PYMNTS’ latest The Optimizing AP and AR Playbook , a collaboration with OnPay Solutions, found that businesses in the U.S. Weave Eyes Value Of Payment Choice.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A new report from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firm Inspyrus suggested that chief executive officers and accounts payable (AP) professionals aren’t seeing eye to eye on AP technology, and organizations are failing to upgrade their AP processes and tools as a result.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 27, 2023

While many of these disruptions will continue to present challenges for the foreseeable future, forward-thinking finance leaders can embrace technology and services that will not only help them overcome these issues, but also achieve more efficient and profitable operations. Many continue to recruit and even backfill for these roles.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 9, 2023

a provider of accounts payable (AP) automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers, today announced its referral partnership with KeyStone by Corelation Inc. AvidXchange Holdings, Inc., Corelation”), the latest core processor for today’s credit union.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 9, 2023

a provider of accounts payable (AP) automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers, today announced its referral partnership with KeyStone by Corelation Inc. AvidXchange Holdings, Inc., Corelation”), the latest core processor for today’s credit union.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Palette Software unveiled accounts payable (AP) automation technology that is designed for firms in the construction and engineering industries and run on the cloud, according to an announcement. Finance administrators and project managers both benefit from automation of the accounts payable process.

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MineralTree

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While savvy retailers promptly responded to changing customer behavior with new digital technology initiatives, other retailers still struggle with supply chain issues, accounts payable inefficiencies, and high costs, without enough staff to help. Why Now for AP in Retail. Manual AP Processes Continue to Drop the Ball.

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MineralTree

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The good news is that there are several ways your business can reduce overdue payments in your accounts payable department, and it starts with AP automation. This can make it more difficult and expensive to obtain financing in the future. Let’s take a closer look. Why Overdue Payments Happen.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Accounting departments, for example, suddenly had employees accessing highly sensitive data remotely via home Wi-Fi, without the data security extant in office-based accounting as we’ve long known it. And operations still using manual accounts payable (AP) methods are really rethinking things. “A And it won’t.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

In an effort to help companies reduce their accounts payable (AP) expenses, Zycus has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bots for the last part of the procurement process, according to an announcement. Its technology also includes a supplier portal and an eInvoicing offering.

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MineralTree

MARCH 7, 2024

Optimizing your AP process QuickBooks is the obvious first choice for many small businesses seeking an accounting software solution. That’s why many finance teams have made the switch from QuickBooks to Sage Intacct. However, its reporting process can be cumbersome as it typically requires manual intervention with Excel.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

To make the complete payables process smarter, global payables automation company Tipalti unveiled its Tipalti Pi integrated payables intelligence engine, according to a press release. The solution identifies fraud and risk, bolsters decision making, automates manual work and eliminates accounts payable (AP) process errors.

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MineralTree

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Is your accounts payable (AP) check run holding your business back? The AP check run remains a pain point for many finance departments who rely on manual processes and outdated solutions to manage AP — in turn, causing check run delays and hiccups. What is a check run in accounts payable?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

To help additional middle-market companies automate their accounts payable (AP) processes, MineralTree announced that it has grown its integration abilities, according to a press release. They also let finance departments work from any place where an internet connection is available. “By

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Accounts payable (AP) automation certainly has the potential to transform the invoice-to-pay process by allowing employees to turn their attention from monotonous, manual tasks to more value-added ones. Transforming AP departments in this way, though, is no straight-forward task — for more reasons than one.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

To provide non-touch invoice processing and support remote work, SoftCo rolled out its SoftCo ExpressAP accounts payable (AP) automation technology. SoftCo Co-founder Susan Spence said in the release, “SoftCo ExpressAP makes life a whole lot easier for Finance teams. In separate news, Ephesoft, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) tools that provide quick, detailed oversights of businesses’ financial statuses and payments obligations can help pick up the pace of payments by keeping invoice approval processes on track. Around The AP Automation World. Three-Way Invoice Matching Brews Up Better AP Processes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Solution providers in accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) are increasingly servicing not only their corporate customers, but their customers’ own business partners with their technologies. But there is another area of convergence for AR and AP. Wells, HSBC Eye APIs’ AR/AP Opportunity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Money, therefore, remains tight, and SMBs need fast and precise insights into their finances and processes to help them make more informed spending decisions. These slow processes make it difficult for AP professionals to quickly pull up information on payment obligations, and they also present plenty of opportunities for human error.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

With pressure mounting for the enterprise to digitize, accounts payable automation is seen as a crucial part of achieving greater efficiency, cost savings, visibility into spend and strengthening of vendor relationships, to name a few benefits. But going it alone can quickly overwhelm a business. “It’s born digital. .”

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MineralTree

JANUARY 26, 2023

A provider that can deliver both AP automation software and managed services has become one of the most popular resources used to improve payment operations and unlock additional efficiencies. Payment Operations Today Today’s finance teams are under immense pressure to become more strategic.

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MineralTree

MARCH 2, 2023

The world of finance is constantly evolving, and this year is no exception. The new year brings fresh challenges for CFOs and finance teams, specifically around strategizing methods to minimize the pressures of recession and inflation. Keep reading to learn about each of these challenges and how finance leaders can face them head-on.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is a huge step in our mission to simplify [accounts payable (AP)] payments for Microsoft technology users and to successfully support our shared customer and partner base," Rolfson said, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

By its very nature, accounts payable (AP) is a cost center: It’s where money leaves the enterprise, after all. However, as with so many back-office enterprise functions, AP is now shifting its reputation as one that can add value to businesses. “It’s about having a strong business case internally.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Bots are marching steadily into the corporate accounting department as professionals feel more comfortable handing tasks to a machine. The more bots make their way into the accounting department, the more concerns arise about jobs, compliance, trust and other industry-unknowns. “This is such new territory for everyone.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

As more technology emerges to sit between a company’s accounts payable (AP) platform and its vendor’s accounts receivable (AR) portal, service providers are looking to ease friction in a multitude of ways, from accelerating payments and cash flows to easing contract negotiations.

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