Self-Study Course Details
Course Description

As long as invoices remain a staple of the B2B billing and payment process, smart companies will do everything they can to reduce the number of headaches associated with them. What is interesting as we go through the list is that there are ways to greatly reduce or eliminate some of them. Companies just have to make the decision to do so and then stick to the regimen. Those routines are spelled out in this paper.

In this course, industry expert Mary Schaeffer take a look some of the more common problems experienced by companies related to the invoice process and offers solutions on how best-practice companies can minimize these problems and, in some cases, eliminate them.

Learning Objectives
  • Understand how to develop a strong invoice handling processes to eliminate common invoice problems
  • Recognize how to eliminate the problem of invoices without invoice numbers
  • Identify how to earn more of your early payment discounts
  • Identify strategies for dealing with second invoices with a different invoice number
  • Recognize how to speed up the invoice approval process & Minimize the amount of manual data entry required when entering invoice data
Prerequisites
  • None
Advanced Preparation

None

Author Details
  • Mary Schaeffer
    Mary Schaeffer

    Mary Schaeffer, AP Now’s Founder creates content around the accounts payable and payment function. This material takes the form of a twice-a-week free ezine, the AP Now podcast and YouTube channel with 500+ videos, a monthly newsletter, 20+ business books, a variety of courses for accountants and AP professionals, and numerous webinars. She served on the Business Payments Coalition and Federal Reserve’s Remittance Delivery Assessment Work Group, and is currently a member of Nacha’s ACH Network Advisory Panel. Schaeffer has been named a Top AP Influencer for the last five years. She also received the Well-Being for Others award from them in 2021 and was named the Top AP Influencer in 2022. She has a BS in Mathematics and an MBA in Finance. Before founding AP Now, she worked in corporate finance and treasury for Continental Grain (Cash Manager) Equitable Life, now AXA (Assistant Treasurer) and O&Y (Financial Risk Manager). 

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