[Editor's Note: It's almost 2015 and, to cap off 2014 in style, Payables Place will run five of the best posts from the 2014 archives. Today we kick things off with the…
Today occupies an interesting place in modern culture. Boxing Day, as today is called in many nations of the former British Empire, is a secular holiday when servants and tradespeople would receive…
We’re two days away from Christmas, but that doesn’t mean the speed of business slows down. The accounts payable world last week enjoyed several new developments, as you’ll see below.…
Enterprises around the world want to maximize working capital for a variety of reasons, not least of which includes freeing up cash from operations in order to hire new employees,…
We're getting into the final weeks of 2014, with only 15 days left before the start of the new year and nine days until Christmas. This doesn't mean the news…
As December winds down, some enterprises are finalizing their finances and working through budgets for 2015, while others prepare to close down for the week and a half between Christmas Eve and…
The worldwide economic situation became more interesting last week. The United States enjoyed a barn-burner of a jobs report on Friday morning—312,000 jobs were created in November, while the unemployment…
Purchasing cards (“p-cards”) have been around long enough to become a ubiquitous facet of a majority of enterprises. Generally strong when it comes to high-volume, low-dollar-value transactions and also utilized…
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…