accounts payable

Accounts payable is money owed by a business to its suppliers shown as a liability on a company's balance sheet. It is distinct from notes payable liabilities, which are debts created by formal legal instrument documents.

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Strategizing Corporate Legal Departments’ Invoice Payments
Strategizing Corporate Legal Departments’ Invoice Payments
February 06, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Supply chain financing is a practice that has received a bit of backlash in recent weeks, with critics accusing some large corporates of forcing discounts...

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AP Automation’s Role In Paying The Gig Economy
AP Automation’s Role In Paying The Gig Economy
February 05, 2020  |  Gig Economy

The rise of the gig economy is inexorable. By some estimates, within this decade, about half of the U.S. workforce will be made up of...

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AR-AP Connectivity Forges Deeper Buyer-Supplier Ties
AR-AP Connectivity Forges Deeper Buyer-Supplier Ties
February 04, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Innovations in accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) have introduced new technologies to sit between buyers’ and suppliers’ systems for deeper integrations between business...

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Kobe Bryant, Virtual Cards, Self-Service Technology Top This Week’s News
Kobe Bryant, Virtual Cards, Self-Service Technology Top This Week’s News
January 31, 2020  |  The Weekender

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and...

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AP Automation, Virtual Cards And Accounting Nirvana
AP Automation, Virtual Cards And Accounting Nirvana
January 31, 2020  |  Accounts Payable

Smartphones, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual cards. It sounds like a corporate accountant’s dream setup, what with all those spending controls and reconciliation data flowing...

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The Vendor’s Role In AP Automation Adoption
The Vendor’s Role In AP Automation Adoption
January 31, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Automating back-office processes has indisputable positive impacts on companies’ ability to promote efficiency and operational cost savings, and even encourage sustainability through the reduction of...

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The Benefits Of Virtual Cards For B2B Payments
The Benefits Of Virtual Cards For B2B Payments
January 30, 2020  |  Accounts Payable

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use....

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Corporate Cards Tackle Industry-Specific Pain Points
Corporate Cards Tackle Industry-Specific Pain Points
January 29, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Commercial cards continue to explore more use cases to optimize spend for businesses, from accounts payable (AP) to employee travel and expense management. Increasingly, the...

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Banking On Consumer-Centric Strategies To Spur Virtual Card Adoption
Banking On Consumer-Centric Strategies To Spur Virtual Card Adoption
January 29, 2020  |  Accounts Payable

Flipping paper checks into virtual cards is easier said than done. In the latest Next-Gen AP Automation Tracker, Jennifer Swenson, U.S. Bank’s vice president of...

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