Accounts Payable

A Guide to Running an Efficient Department

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Product code: 20176
ISBN: 0471636908
432 pages
Format: Hb
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2004, 2nd edition

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Description of Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable, Second Edition is the most complete guide to running a valuable accounts payable department.

This updated edition continues where the successful first edition left off, providing all the critical information and guidance top professionals need to run an efficient department, complete with coverage of the innovative issues now facing the field and new material on:

- Encryption and digital signatures
- Electronic invoicing
- Purchase cards
- Post audit firms
- Petty cash
- Vendor fraud
- Certification

Supplemented annually to ensure the most helpful and up-to-date information, Accounts Payable, Second Edition is the one resource that accounts payable managers, controllers, and CFOs need at their fingertips.

Please Note:
Because of the rapidly changing nature of information in this field, this product may be updated with annual supplements or with future editions. If a supplement already exists, it will be sent to you free of charge with your purchase of the main volume. We will send on approval any future supplements or new editions when they become available.

Accounts Payable - Chapter headings

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: PROCESSING
1. Invoice Handling
2. Alternatives to the Three-Way Match
3. Check Preparation Printing and Filing
4. Automated Clearinghouse and Direct Deposit
5. Making International Payments

PART TWO: CONTROLS.
6. Exception and Rush Processing
7. Errors and Duplicate Payments
8. Paying When the Original Invoice Is Not Available
9. Master Vendor Files

PART THREE: CASH MANAGEMENT
10. Terms and Taking Discounts
11. Cash Management
12. Petty Cash
13. Payment Timing
14. Audits and Outside Accountant's Management Letter

PART FOUR: TRAVEL AND ENTERTAINMENT.
15. Handling Travel and Entertainment Reports
16. Electronic Travel and Entertainment Handling
17. Travel and Entertainment Automation
18. VAT Refunds

PART FIVE: TECHNOLOGY
19. Electronic Data Interchange
20. Imaging
21. Internet, E-Mail, and E-invoicing
22. Encryption and Digital Signatures
23. E-marketplaces and XML

PART SIX: SPECIALTY TOPIC.
24. Purchasing Card
25. Post Audit Firms
26. Benchmarking

PART SEVEN: REGULATORY ISSUES.
27. Form 1099 and Form1042-S
28. Sales and Use Tax
29. Escheatment

PART EIGHT: MANAGEMENT ISSUES.
30. Ethics, SOA and OFAC
31. Disaster Recovery
32. Outsourcing
33. Management Techniques: Balanced Scorecards, Six Sigma

PART NINE: DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT
34. Making Your Accounts Payable Department First Rate
35. Managing The Staff
36. Staff Motivation and Morale
37. Working with/for Purchasing and Other Departments

PART TEN: FRAUD
38. Check Fraud
39. Employee Fraud
40. Vendor Fraud

PART ELEVEN: ACCOUNT PAYABLE TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE
41. Professionalism in the Field
42. Salary and Titles in Accounts Payable Today

Appendix: Accounts Payable Resources