The Finance Weekly

MAY 20, 2024

What Is Bank Reconciliation? Bank reconciliation is a process companies use to ensure that their recorded cash balances align with the actual cash held in their bank accounts. Nevertheless, banks still manage most business accounts, and the same reconciliation procedures can be applied to these other cash positions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That means emerging services are multitasking, easing friction for both accounts payable and accounts receivable. Below, PYMNTS explores the latest initiatives and finds that innovators are looking at the accounts receivable side to tackle accounts payable friction. Tipalti Reallocates The Workload.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Office closures and remote working mandates have created an uncomfortable wakeup call for accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) departments that continue to rely on manual, paper-based processes. For both sides, the transaction data of a virtual card payment means streamlined reconciliation and reporting.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 29, 2025

Collis career began in accounting, where he spent seven years honing technical expertise in public accounting. The first is our accounts payable automation solution. Many AP solutions require users to leave their ERP environment, process invoices externally, and then sync the data back via API. We offer two core products.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) teams and other financial functions of the enterprise were some of the hardest hit by the disruption caused by the global pandemic. “Companies are increasingly looking to more efficiently manage the accounts payable process,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“The shift I have seen there,” she told PYMNTS of healthcare firms, “that was most effective is providers [the vendors] had their way of going through the process either from an [accounts payable] or [accounts receivable] perspective.”. Comdata, she said, has mimicked the flow from claims to invoice to payment to reconciliation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Today in B2B payments, TripActions announces new funding that values the T&E startup at $5 billion, while OneSource Virtual launches invoice payment capabilities. OneSource Virtual Rolls Out Invoice Pay For Vendor Payments. Invoice Pay, which is fueled by J.P. Million For SMB Accounting Software. 21) announcement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Digitizing documents is key to optimizing workflows, but when it comes to the procure-to-pay space, not all digital invoices and purchase orders are created equal. XML invoices, which digitize the data on the invoice, are only a fraction of total invoice volume. What It Means to Be Digital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

These firms are also looking to process invoices faster and more efficiently, and they are adopting automations that can rapidly interpret invoice-related information and flow it into their systems. . That means leaving old-fashioned AR methods behind, as many corporate clients no longer want to receive invoices in the mail. . “It

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Accounts receivable (AR) management solutions provider Invoiced has enhanced its platform through a partnership with U.K.-based The company announced in a press release Wednesday (August 1) that its collaboration with GoCardless enables businesses to support direct debit payments when they invoice their customers.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 1, 2023

According to IDC's 2023 Future SMB and Midmarket Survey , 50% of surveyed respondents (driven by SMBs) in Asia/Pacific state that they will automate their financial and accounting processes through cloud applications in the next 18 months. "As This can be time-consuming and lead to errors when handled manually.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Research published last year from the International Factoring Association (IFA) pointed to the trucking and freight industry as the market that uses invoice factoring solutions more than any other. Invoices submitted for financing by freight factoring firms account for more than one third of all invoices processed for funding, the IFA said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Accounts payable and payments automation solution MineralTree has added automated PO and invoice matching for cloud-based accounting and financial management platform Sage Intacct , a press release says. Trintech made the program for its Adra Suite and it became available via the Sage Intacct Marketplace.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They discovered payroll fraud when a manager created a fake employee and diverted their paychecks into a personal account. For instance, if the same person approves invoices and processes payments, thats a red flag. Building a culture of accountability starts at the top. Take Dixon Enterprises, a mid-sized manufacturing company.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Smooth accounts payable and receivable processes depend on the ability to easily access, manage and interpret payments data, but complex workflows and old-school tools can get in the way. Reconciliation Challenges. Modern automation and integrations can make it unnecessary to swap between many different applications.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The newest additions to the platform allow payments professionals to select invoices that are due to be paid and choose to pay them with a single-click function. The fact remains, said the executive, that manual processes and reconciliation can become a cost center.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

With so many processes still based on paper, accounts receivable (AR) departments within organizations that are less advanced in their digitization journeys are facing added friction as workers are sent home. ” This is especially true for organizations absorbing lockbox files that don’t perfectly match with an invoice. .

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Future CFO

MAY 15, 2022

Finance leaders may have noticed one invoicing trend that emerged in the last couple of years – the way invoices arrive at their organisations has quite clearly changed. Now, with remote and hybrid work commonplace, most invoices are delivered through employees’ and the finance team’s email accounts.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Do a Google search on nonprofit bookkeeping, and you’ll find page after page of articles on nonprofit accounting. Because while nonprofit bookkeeping and accounting are related, they’re not the same thing. A bookkeeper records and organizes financial data; an accountant interprets and presents that data. . Invoicing .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Complex on so many levels, especially when it comes to payments and, more specifically, invoicing, where demands for payment are tracked through paper and electronic means. Via its cross-border reconciliation network, Flywire can collect and reconcile those payments immediately and accurately.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 6, 2024

The conversation today has a very simple focus, 5 red flags that your nonprofit accounting needs improvement, even when it may not be recognized. Red Flag #1: Bank Account Reconciliation Whether the business is accrual or cash basis, it does not matter. Consider it like an internal audit and a necessity.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

When it comes to accounts payable, there is no shortage of FinTechs that have taken either one of these approaches in an effort to address the many pain points of the procure-to-pay cycle. From this angle, Stampli has designed an invoice processing solution to facilitate communication between key players in the transaction.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This combination of facilitating payment and data connectivity was the motivation behind Transcard's launch of automated account-to-account (A2A) transactions. The Account-To-Account Connection. Today, suppliers that receive a transaction may see funds weeks after an invoice is issued. Deepening Data Ties.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Regular Reconciliations : Perform surprise cash counts and inventory checks and reconcile sales and deposit records frequently. Aggressive Accounting Practices : Look out for unusual accounting entries, round-number transactions, or complex journal entries that lack clear justification. Investigate any discrepancies promptly.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Accounts payable (AP) automation is beneficial, and even necessary, for many businesses still bogged down by paper. Part of that journey includes a focus on vendors’ accounts receivable (AR) challenges, which is crucial to finding success with newly-implemented AP tools. Tipalti Collaborates To Ease Vendor Acceptance.

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CFO Share

JUNE 18, 2024

Be Selective with Software Integrations In today’s digital landscape, nearly every software offers integrations with accounting platforms. While it might seem easier and more accurate to integrate everything, the truth is most accounting integrations are unnecessary or burdensome. Operations – validates inventory records.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Playbook also calls out “three-way invoice matching — in which staff must compare invoices to purchase orders and goods received notes,” and the frustrations that brings, but automation can reduce these stresses by matching these invoices automatically. Capital Management Leans Into Digital. A recent survey found that 74.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2020

Freelancers have seen particularly harsh economic effects from the ongoing pandemic. Forty percent of those in the U.S. have lost at least $10,000 in income since its onset, leaving many operating on fast-declining savings. The nation

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. Data is key to addressing those pain points like identifying instances of fraud or promoting automated reconciliation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

FLEETCOR -owned Cambridge Global Payments has announced the launch of its Invoice Automation Solution. The service automatically extracts data from invoices, PDFs and other trade documents and automates accounts payable while storing payables information for reconciliation and accounting.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

For the accounts payable (AP) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) automation space, it’s no longer business as usual. These firms are finding that managing both systems in the cloud offers the flexibility and security needed to streamline invoicing and cut costs, while keeping operations running as smoothly and accurately as possible.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Travel booking company Webjet , based in Australia, has launched a blockchain solution for the hotel industry to manage reconciliation in hotel distribution. Webjet said it estimates as much as 5 percent of hotel bookings involve a disputed invoice between parties.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Many are turning to enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools with accounts payable (AP) automation to harness both solutions’ abilities and level up their businesses’ values. The time it takes to process an invoice also drops from 10.3 Upgrading ERP Simultaneously With AP Automation.

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Bramasol

JUNE 25, 2024

However, amidst the ever-expanding role of the Office of the CFO, accounting still is a major responsibility and this arena also is radically changing with the availability of new tools, technologies and challenges. Sweeping changes in the enterprise technology landscape have also been a key driver in expanding the role of CFOs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2020

With B2B payments being an increasingly attractive target for innovators, the landscape is growing crowded as more banks and FinTechs roll out their accounts payable (AP) automation solutions. Again, noted Fordyce, this can take many forms — from automating invoice reconciliation to addressing a user’s resource constraints.

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Future CFO

APRIL 6, 2022

Accounts Payable is responsible for so much more than just paying incoming bills and invoices, particularly given today's global challenges. The post Use accounts payables automation to keep your processes in the ‘safe zone’ appeared first on FutureCFO. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Purchase, invoice and transaction data are invaluable to the journey of digitization and automation, but organizations are increasingly recognizing that the value can only be realized if that data can integrate seamlessly across platforms. “This combination increases data accuracy, and shortens payment cycles.”

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