الأهداف
- Create a smooth-running payment system that saves time, money and resources
- Utilize essential strategies to achieve accurate and timely close off
- Gain an insight into how technology is changing AP processes
الخطوط العريضة
Accounts Payable: Why is it important and how does it add value to your organization?
- Critical factors for successful Accounts Payable teams
- The importance of authority limits
Key areas within Accounts Payable where efficiency, accuracy and security can be improved
- AP techniques you can implement in your accounts department to increase efficiency
- How staffing requirements can be made more effective and profitable
- Technological developments which can enhance your AP operations
- Successfully minimizing manual work and improving processing methods
- Developing effective AP management reporting tools
Integrating purchasing and accounts payable to create an efficient procurement process
- Closing the loop between procurement and AP to create a total procurement process and support procurement strategy
- Using techniques such as summarized bills for your suppliers, and matching of purchase orders, delivery notes and invoices
Streamlining your expense processing
- Tips and tricks of key expense processes and quickly identifying discrepancies in expense claims
- Mastering the art of reducing ASAP invoice processing
- An analysis of the pros and cons of purchasing cards
- Effective checks for avoiding abuse of P-cards
How technology is changing AP department operations
- Data capture, workflow and document management
- Integration of AP systems and placement of purchasing into electronic format
- How to effectively detect and correct out-of-tolerance
- transactions
- Current and future trends in transaction processing
Maximizing your time and cash resources
- Importance of maintaining accurate AP records and its effect on cash flow forecasting
- Techniques for helping to eliminate duplicate payments, and holding payment with suppliers until problems are resolved
- Early payment discounts
- Invoice payment tracking systems
Strategies to achieve accurate and timely close-off
- Standardizing procedures to simplify the process
- Freeing up time by preparing subsidiary information
- Using estimates and accruals effectively during your close-off period
- Strategies and tips to make year end close-offs easier
- Reconciliation of the AP and general ledger
Counteracting employee or customer fraud and theft
- Successful methods for inserting more internal controls within AP processes
- Developing a step-by-step fraud prevention strategy
- Procedures, reviews and management accountability
Setting up an effective records system with instant access to vital information
- Build a system which coordinates control numbers through the entire payment process
- Making your records accessible, while protecting against lost, misplaced and misused files
- IRD record keeping requirements
- Cost centre reports and project reports - how is the information collected?
Key communication techniques
- Flow of information between your department and entire organization
- Efficiently getting approvals, authorizations and signatures
- Examining difficult situations that can arise in AP
- Resolving problems while benefiting the employee, the AP department and organization
من ينبغى أن يحضر
- Credit Managers, controllers and supervisors
- Accounts Payable and Business Support professionals
- Anyone with accounts payable responsibilities
- Finance Administrators
- Business Support Assistants
- Payroll Managers