Barclays

One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]

Interesting news abounds in the business world lately. In China, the central government launched a broad-based stimulus designed to help local governments restructure trillions of dollars in debt and meet their obligations. Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to curb the Federal Reserve’s power to bail out huge financial firms in a [...]

No matter the size of the enterprise, the accounts payable team tends to be deluged with paper. Mostly in the form of invoices and/or paper checks sent to suppliers. In fact, 70% of all invoices are still paper-based, according to Ardent Partners research, which can cause significant headaches for the accounts payable team from an [...]