With inflation's impact on the costs of raw materials, commodities, labor and shipping, trying to control costs at your organization may feel like you're climbing up a downward-moving escalator. But even with higher supplier prices across the board, it's possible…
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How’s your professional relationship with your CIO right now? A recent Gartner survey shows that many of your peers are struggling to work closely with their top IT execs because they aren’t seeing eye to eye for various reasons. A…
Having the option of arbitration for employer/employee disputes is crucial for avoiding costly litigation. But going forward, there's a new amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act on the books that you need to know about. The Ending Forced Arbitration of…
Your A/P leaders have an important role to play in keeping company cash out of the hands of criminals. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' report "Occupational Fraud 2022: A Report to the Nations," there's a lot of…
Are you making sure you and Payroll are accounting for all the time your people spend working, especially for your remote workers? You may think you know how many hours employees are working each day in the office and at…
Many of your peers learned from the pandemic that a paperless A/P department can benefit every level of the organization, putting the focus on individual transactions instead of clusters of documents. But as consultant, author and former CFO Carl L.…
Ever since the pandemic caused a shift to remote work, more employees value flexibility than ever before. And that’s caused some new productivity trends to take shape that you should know about. How flexibility affects employees' productivity To keep your…
IRS needs to make some significant improvements if it wants to boost businesses’ rates of e-filing. That’s according to the latest annual report from the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Each year, ETACC makes recommendations to the Service for…
It might not just be IRS that comes knocking if you slack off on your payroll tax withholding. A recent court case indicates the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can also come after employers for failing to pay their…
It’s up to A/P to double-check vendor contract terms to make sure everyone’s sticking to them, as well as to handle the renegotiation of contracts. In order to be able to easily access contract documents, and not waste time hunting…
Your Payroll pros could be seeing some big legislative changes down the road to reduce the Social Security shortfall – especially since certain measures have significant bipartisan support. In fact, both Republicans and Democrats are mostly in favor of altering…
Your peers are feeling less optimism about the economy as prices stay high this quarter, according to the latest results from The CFO Survey, a collaboration between the Federal Reserve banks in Richmond, VA, and Atlanta, and Duke University. In…
