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What do early payment discounts and the ‘Time Value of Money’ have to do with one another? In a word, everything. If you’re in Accounts Payable (“AP”) or P2P, you may have never associated one with the other. But they are very much intertwined in the entire ePayables process. In my experience, core finance concepts [...]

Where does the most money flow out of an organization? No, it’s not fraud, theft, or even sales meetings. The simple answer is Accounts Payable (“AP”). Since AP pays all the bills of an enterprise, it is not surprising that more money flows out of it than any other part of the organization. Over the [...]

[Editor’s Note: This is the last week you will be able to download Ardent Partners’ annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Download the report before it’s gone! By now, we’ve already discussed the stats: 52% of organizations polled during our annual survey perceive the accounts payable (AP) function as [...]

In a world where the speed of business increases moment by moment, and the next big competitor is right around the corner, enterprises can ill afford to let business value slip through their fingers. This is, however, what many Accounts Payable (“AP”) organizations have done by allowing manual, paper-based methods to persist in their supplier [...]

Years ago, the Accounts Payable (“AP”) roadmap was incredibly clear: shore up inefficiencies, eliminate paper and manual-based processes, and turn to ePayables automation as a way to develop repeatable and scalable operations. Although full AP automation is still the exception instead of the norm, many organizations have followed this roadmap and see success as a [...]

Editor’s Note: Do you want to learn more about Bob’s take on the importance of data within Accounts Payable, and how best to utilize that data to take AP to the next level? Then join Bob next Tuesday, September 18 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation, Making an Impact: How Data in AP [...]

Editor’s Note: Join us on Thursday, September 13 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our flagship market research report, “The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now,” sponsored by Bottomline Technologies (click here to register). Today, the typical Accounts Payable (“AP”) team continues to work slowly, but surely, [...]

Ardent Partners is pleased to present its newest custom research report, How AP Can Leverage Data to Make an Impact, sponsored by Esker. Interested readers can download the report for free by clicking here (registration required). Access to accurate, real-time data can be a game changer to Finance and Accounts Payable (“AP”) teams operating in [...]

Ardent Partners’ 13th annual “State of ePayables” Report, written by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and Research Director, Bob Cohen, presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of Accounts Payable today, by drawing on the experience, performance, and perspective of AP and finance executives. Now is your opportunity to hear [...]

While the accounts payable (“AP”) function has long been one of the last bastions of manual processes in an enterprise, we have started to see a small technological evolution that has transitioned the AP industry away from manual tasks that have proved to be both time consuming and costly. The pressure to automate operations – [...]