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BEST ACCOUNTS PAYABLE PRACTICES FOR INVOICE HANDLING

Cost Free
CPE Credits 1.0 hour
Subject Area 1.0 - Accounting
CE Credits 0.0 hours
Course Level Overview
Instructional Method Self Study
Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Course Description

Best practices for the invoice handling function are critical for those organizations concerned about their profitability. For poor practices result in excess cost, duplicate payments, increased processing expenses, fraud and frayed vendor relationships. This course presents information the professional can use to identify best practice problems. Industry expert Mary S. Schaeffer explains the invoice issues. She then reveals the best practices for a myriad of these problems as well as identifying almost best practices for those cases where it is not possible to use the best practice and the worst practices which are likely to cause trouble.

Learning Objectives:


  • Create effective invoice receipt practices

  • Establish effective data entry rules for invoice processors

  • Construct best practice invoice handling routines

  • Define effective practices when short-paying invoices

  • Develop stands for handling unidentified invoices

  • Establish a process for managing discrepant invoices

Self-Study Course Instructions:

FOR DOCUMENT-BASED COURSES

Download the course document(s) (below) and follow prompts contained in the document.



FOR RECORDED COURSES WITH VIDEO

Download any course document(s) (below) which may include handouts, glossary, transcripts, etc. Follow any prompts contained in the documents to help you complete the course. Most documents are searchable.

Play the recording, noting the sectional guides indicating where topics on the agenda are covered and the prompts to pause video playback to respond to a review question (located below the video playback area). The timestamps for review questions are also noted below.

Upon completing the video and successfully answering all review questions, you will then take the final exam.

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Mary S. Schaeffer, a nationally recognized accounts payable expert, is the author of 18 business books, a monthly newsletter and a free weekly e-zine, as well as 10l CPE self-study courses for CPAs. She runs AP Now, a boutique publishing and consulting firm focused on accounts payable issues. Before turning to writing and consulting she worked in the corporate world as an Assistant Treasurer for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, a Financial Risk Manager for O&Y and a Corporate Cash Manager for Continental Grain. A frequent and popular speaker at industry live and online events, she has an MBA in Finance and a BS in Mathematics.

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