Essentials of Accounts Payable (eBook)

Mary S. Schaeffer is the Editorial Director and Publisher of Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow, a newsletter devoted to payment issues. She also pens, e-News from the AP Front, a complimentary e-zine for the payment community. She's the author of ten books and numerous magazine, newsletter and newspaper articles. Her books have been used in several certification programs. She is a member of the New York Financial Writers Association. She is currently working on two additional books for John Wiley & Sons.

Some Accounting and Bookkeeping Basics.

Invoice Handling: The Three-Way Match and More.

Checks: The Traditional Payment Mechanism.

Exception Handling and Those Dreaded Rush Checks.

Preventing Duplicate Payments and Other Common Errors.

Paying Lost or Missing Invoices without Creating Additional
Problems.

Improving the Relationship with Purchasing.

Master Vendor Files: An Often-Overlooked Function.

Discounts, Deductions, and the Problems They Cause.

Travel and Entertainment: The Traditional Functions.

Travel and Entertainment in the Twenty-First Century.

Electronic Data Interchange: The Key to a Paperless Accounts
Payable World.

Using the Internet in Accounts Payable.

Extensible Markup Language: What Account Payable Pros Need to
Know.

Procurement Cards and Their Impact on the Accounts Payable
Function.

Fraud: Vendor, Employee, and Check.

How Companies Are Now Using Technology in Accounts Payable.

High-Level Accounts Payable Concepts.

Managing Your First Accounts Payable Department.

Accounts Payable in the Twenty-First Century.

Additional Resources.

Index.

An excellent introduction to the world of Accounts Payable (AP)
with loads of specifics on best practices and helpful hints on how
to best get the job done. Chock full of information on how the AP
function operates today with a vision for the future of those
operations. Although written as a primer for someone new to the AP
world, even the most seasoned AP professional will find new and
important insights about the AP function. (Sandy Campos Vice
President of Corporate Services Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.)