In continuation with our Latin American theme, today’s focus will be Argentina. You can read about the various requirements and guidelines for Mexico and Brazil in previous articles. The tax authority responsible for overseeing electronic invoices in Argentina is called Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP). In order to issue invoices, all companies in Argentina [...]
June 12, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices
In a previous article (which you can find here) I covered the essentials of eInvoicing in Mexico and the recent changes in government requirements. Today, the focus is going to be Brazil (part 3 will cover Argentina), which is largely considered the leader and pace setter for eInvoicing in Latin America. Just to provide some [...]
June 10, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, News
One of the most interesting, successful and fast growing markets for eInvoicing is not Europe but Latin America. For some time now certain Latin American countries have been aggressively pushing electronic invoicing. Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have led the charge with government mandates that require companies to replace standard paper invoices with electronic invoices. eInvoicing [...]
June 6, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, News
At the moment, Ardent Partner’s research team is completing the annual AP-focused market research report which will be widely available shortly – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn. This report will focus on the evolving role of AP from a back-office function to one that adds- value and supports other functions such as Treasury and Procurement [...]
June 3, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices
The European Union is by far the most advanced region of the world in its usage and implementation of electronic invoicing standards and regulations. Despite this region’s progress, there is still more to do. Other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have also made significant progress in establishing regulations around eInvoicing, however, they are very [...]
April 24, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, News
I have the pleasure of welcoming a “Payables Guest” today, Lynn Heitman, Senior Product and Marketing Officer, U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems. Heitman’s career in the payments industry spans 24 years beginning with the management of some of the first Affinity credit card programs in the 1980s and since then has worked in several areas of [...]
March 26, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Technology
In order to continue to provide valuable and insightful content, we decided this year to include articles from other experts in the field on occasion. Today, we have an article from our first “Payables Guest” – Mark Becker, Program Optimization Manager at U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems. Most organizations have specific reasons for starting purchasing [...]
January 17, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices
Today’s article is a brief snippet of a report that Ardent Partners completed for Concur entitled –The SMB of the Future: Start Fast, Then Accelerate For an entire generation, technology has had an extraordinary impact on the lives of countless millions in the home and office. At home, technology and access to the internet have [...]
January 11, 2013
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Technology
It was not so long ago that a trip to the grocery store could be ruined by a single action: having the person at the front of the checkout line decide to pay by check (a decision that was seemingly always made at the last second). From an uncertainty in knowing current account balances, to [...]
November 15, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research
As we think about the entire ePayables Framework (i.e., Receive, Process and Pay), it is during the “Pay” phase of the process that AP can work closely with treasury and finance to develop more sophisticated payment strategies and implement processes to optimize working capital (however, it should be noted that the efficiency and accuracy of [...]
August 22, 2012
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process