compliance management

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required).] Over the last decade, Accounts [...]

Today begins the holiday shopping season in the United States. “Black Friday” sales dominate the landscape, with thousands of shoppers filling retail stores searching for deals on everything from cars to televisions. But did you know that the words “Black Friday” were originally coined as a negative description of the day? The story goes that [...]

Welcome to the final article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of spend management and the compliance ramifications behind strategic spend categories. The first four articles highlighted the dozen items that should be included in an enterprise’s [...]

Welcome to the fourth article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of spend management and the compliance ramifications behind strategic spend categories. The first four articles will highlight the dozen items that should be included in an [...]

Welcome to another edition of the biweekly roundup of Payables Place articles, devised to recognize that not everyone will catch our news and thought pieces on the day it launches. Today is November 14, and it’s two weeks until Black Friday—November 28—which to some in the U.S. is the start of the Christmas season. Christmas [...]

Happy Halloween! Did you know that the New York Halloween Parade in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village is the only major night-time parade in the United States? It also turns 40 years old today, so happy birthday to those ghouls and goblins. Americans spent around $1.9 billion on candy for Halloween 2013, which sounds like a lot [...]