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Smarter Office Survey
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The purpose of the Smarter Office Survey, which we carried out in May of this year, was to understand the impact of the pandemic on the office and how businesses are navigating the challenges of adapting their offices to the realities of the post-COV...
How an adoption authority transitioned to a more digital way of working
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Customer StoriesScanning and Capture
The Adoption Authority of Ireland sought a scanning and capture partner to assist with digitising valuable, irreplaceable documents for preservation and move towards a more digital way of working.
Are we Finally Reaching the End of the Microchip Shortage?
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BlogScanning and Capture
The global microchip shortage began in 2020 with the Covid-19 outbreak. The shortage was caused by both production line interruptions and factory closures. This has been further exacerbated by China’s sudden lockdowns, the war in Ukraine and rising...
How to Offset Inflation with AP Automation
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Rising inflation is pressing businesses to adopt cost-effective operating procedures. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in its recent report indicated that Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation to reach 8.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of ...
Introduce a Self-service Supplier Invoicing Portal and Paperless Payments
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BlogInvoice Automation
Why invest in a smart AP Automation solution? Is your invoicing solution smart enough? If your invoice processing system is impacting your relationship with suppliers and customers in addition to hurting your brand image, it is time to look at a smar...
Why should I scan my documents?
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BlogScanning and Capture
If you’re doing business in Ireland or the UK, you may be wondering why you should scan your documents. After all, isn’t it just a hassle? However, there are multiple benefits to scanning your documents. In this blog post, we will explore...
New CSO Figures Show Fraud Offences in Ireland Almost Doubled in Last 12 Months
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Fraud offences almost doubled in the past year, according to the latest recorded crime figures for the 12 months to March 2022 released by the Central Statistics Office. The CSO says the increase of 88% was largely driven by unauthorised transactions...
How a motor manufacturer reaches 90% touch-free invoice processing
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
While Heritage Parts Centre continues to expand, now offering customers online channels to purchase parts and communicate with the company, its accounts payable process remained relatively unchanged, with the finance team manually processing the inco...
How Do You Measure the Success of Your Finance Team? KPI Trends in 2022
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Without a doubt, accounts payable (AP) is one of the most critical functions in every modern enterprise. After all, each firm must pay its bills. Thus, improving your AP represents a core avenue for your business growth. Although change is rarely ea...
How a shared services company facilitates growth while reducing costs
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
The team at CVS Group were spending a lot of time transferring data manually from invoices into the ERP system. As the company continues to grow, CVS Group needed a standardised AP process that would increase invoice processing efficiency and improve...
Kefron AP & Netsuite – Non-PO Matching
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As a “Built for NetSuite” partner, Kefron AP enables fast, automated processing of accounts payable invoices so only clean, validated data passes to NetSuite for payment processing. Watch this video to find out how Kefron AP simplify the Non-PO M...
Kefron AP & Netsuite – PO Matching
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VideoInvoice Automation
Maximise your NetSuite investment with our powerful Built for NetSuite certified API integration that enables fast, automated processing of accounts payable invoices so that only clean, validated data is passed to your NetSuite system for payment pro...
Supplier Statement Reconciliation – First Look
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Kefron AP has introduced an add-on purpose built for Supplier Statement Reconciliation that automates the reconciliation of invoices received and invoices the supplier claims to have sent. Find out how by automating Supplier Statement Reconciliation ...
How a council reaches 66% touch-free invoice processing
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
Lambeth Council’s finance team was dealing with extremely labour-intensive invoice processing. Invoices were continually going missing and errors related to human touch-points kept arising, which caused a high volume of invoice queries. The dec...
How a school moves away from manual invoice processing
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
For a busy school like Mill Hill managing the accounts payable process manually can be a real challenge. So achieving a paperless accounts payable process for ease of processing, approval and record-keeping became a priority.
How a consumer business enables a less paper centric work environment
Customer StoriesScanning and Capture
Due to the vast number of suppliers, Boyne Valley was producing and proving a large amount of delivery dockets dealt with on a daily basis was extremely time-consuming, making it an inefficient and unreliable process.
How a leading provider of education achieved visibility of legacy records
Customer StoriesScanning and Capture
Dublin Business School was looking to digitise a series of internal legacy files. The records varied considerably, largely due to different record-keeping practices and naming conventions used by different teams. This presented DBS with many challeng...
How a retail company eliminates mundane tasks from the AP process
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
Emma Bridgewater saw an opportunity to automate the scanning of invoices and the day-to-day tasks as they realised the AP processes employed by the AP team were largely outdated and many of the tasks were mundane.
How a growing manufacturing company turned to AP technology
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
As a global leader in tool manufacturing, Technicut processes thousands of invoices per month through three separate businesses across the UK and Ireland. Managing the accounts payable process manually had become a real challenge and as a result, Tec...
How a roadside retailer reimagined its multisite invoice challenge
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
Applegreen experienced exponential growth across Ireland, UK and US. The Accounts Payable (AP) process team struggled to keep up with new sites, complex or complete lack of invoice coding and the increased volumes of invoices.
How a new financial controller was driven to automation
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
As a major automotive-retail business, the DAF Accounts Payable team dealt with over 1,000 invoices monthly that needed to be manually entered directly into Keyloop Drive, formally Kerridge, the specialist ERP and DMS systems for dealerships.
How a non-profit started a digital revolution
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
Pancreatic Cancer UK faced significant accounts payable processing challenges including misplaced and miscoded invoices. The pandemic added pressure on an already buckling process which led to a doubling in invoice processing time.
How a retail giant maximised office space with scan & capture
Customer StoriesScanning and Capture
Tesco Ireland processes thousands of paper documents every week, ranging from supplier invoices to delivery dockets. All of this documentation needs to be scanned so that it can be accessed by the Tesco head office and other administration teams.
How a housing association slashed supplier payment times
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
Wales & West Housing manage more than 12,000 affordable homes in Wales. The finance team were struggling to meet their payment terms with suppliers, mainly due to archaic invoice process of physically moving invoices between offices.
How a fintech company expanded without increasing headcount
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
On the back of Series A funding, Freetrade had ambitious plans to expand across Europe. A key barrier to the finance team scaling was a critical bottleneck caused by the amount of time spent manually inputting invoice data into NetSuite.
How a fast growing company redeployed finance team through automation
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Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
200 Degrees needed to replace their existing AP Automation solution and a key consideration in choosing a new solution was its ability to deliver on its commitment to be completely paperless.
4 Strategies for Improving Your Accounts Payable Process
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Without a doubt, accounts payable (AP) is one of the most critical functions in every modern enterprise. After all, each firm must pay its bills. Thus, improving your AP represents a core avenue for your business growth. Although change is rarely ea...
“Remote working presented challenges – especially for document security”
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Kefron’s Paul Kearns discusses taking over the family business, expanding into the UK, and helping companies move to the hybrid world of work.
Begin Your Digital Transformation Journey with Kefron
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But for many businesses, the question is often where to start? From speaking to business leaders around the country, many are aware of the benefits digitalisation can bring, from reduced costs and increased productivity to reduced carbon emissions. H...
6 Key Business Apps Every Finance Team Should Have In 2022
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Finance teams face a renewed challenge of achieving greater efficiency with every new year and keep up with the speed of technological innovation. So, what finance apps should a Finance Department have in their 2022 livery to boost their efficiency...
Why 2022 Is The Year For AP Automation
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The New Year brings with it renewed motivation to overcome our challenges. For businesses, 2022 offers three key areas for particular attention – managing the post-pandemic reality, corporate sustainability and increasingly competitive recruitment....
Why Back-Office Automation Is Banking’s Next Digital Transformation Step
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The face of banking is changing, particularly in the post-COVID19 period, with the growing popularity of digital channels highlighting the worth of continued investment in digital transformation strategies. But now more than ever, banks have an oppor...
5 Reasons To Turn To A Cloud Document Management System
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It’s hardly surprising that security and accessibility are two of the most critical elements in a document storage system. But while many businesses look to digital document storage on in-house servers to achieve both, Cloud Document Management Sy...
5 Tips To Preventing Accounts Payable Fraud Against Your Business
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The Digital Age has provided many opportunities for businesses of all sizes. But it has also brought with it new risks. Accounts Payable fraud remains a key concern, studies show there has been no drop off in cases despite the rise in digital process...
How Document Scanning Services Help Overcome The Global Microchip Shortage
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For many business sectors, the challenges created by the COVID19 pandemic have been compounded by the current global microchip shortage. The printing industry, for one, has struggled to match demand for electronic office printers. But document scanni...
Top 5 must-have ERP Add-Ons
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In the modern business world, the software provides the tools, with ERP solutions housing suites of tools. But how can an ERP system deliver the promised productivity? Well, the ERP add-ons play a big part. Find out TOP 5 ERP Add-Ons that your busine...
DM Solutions: How To Organise Your Computer Folders
BlogOnline Documents
As its most basic, Document Management is about safely storing files and folders so they can be easily tracked and retrieved when needed. Modern DM solutions offer much more with the benefit of digital technology, but how files and folders are organi...
5 Key Implications of Digital Transformation on B2B Payments
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The idea of ‘Digital Transformation’ was first introduced in 2014, but while its benefits have been well-illustrated since then, its uptake has been hampered by a hesitancy to commit to adopting digital technologies. Now, the Covid-19 pandemic ha...
How Combining Offsite Storage With Document Scanning Benefits You
BlogScanning and Capture
For many businesses, keeping important documents close to hand remains a preference over storing them offsite and out of reach. Ease of access is often the reason, but secure offsite storage when combined with document scanning provides peace of mind...
How AP Automation Boosts Your Business’ E-Invoicing Onboarding
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Adopting a single European Standard on E-Invoicing brings considerable advantages for public and private organisations, but is your business ready to embrace the change? There are some clear benefits to the adoption of e-invoicing. Read this blog to ...
Our 7-Point Checklist For An Effective Document Management Solution
BlogOnline Documents
For every organisation, efficiently managing documents and data is crucial. So, when assessing the most effective Document Management Solution to use, there is a range of key features and capabilities that a system ought to satisfy. Thankfully, with ...
Predicting the Future of a Smarter Office
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As the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out continues at pace, the return to the physical office is once again coming into view. But the office we left behind fourteen months ago will not be the office which will emerge over the coming months. To help business ...
Remote work now even easier with modern Document Management Systems
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The remote working model offers much more freedom and flexibility to employees, allowing them to do their jobs practically anywhere in the world and at any time. But this is dependent on the ability to access documents. Digitalisation, involving the ...
How AP Automation Facilitates Business Productivity Amidst The Covid-19 Pandemic
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The global pandemic has caused immense upset to normal working practices. How does AP Automation facilitate business productivity during this time and in the post-pandemic world? Automated Accounts Payable systems allow Financial Departments to adap...
How To Prepare Your Business For the Next Black Swan Event
BlogScanning and Capture
The Covid-19 pandemic, called by some a Black Swan event, has had a dramatic impact economically, socially and health-wise. Not least, it has underlined the importance of business continuity. So how can your business ensure its preparedness for the n...
How AP Automation Can Help Develop Leaner and Greener Finance Teams
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Even amidst a global pandemic, a ‘green’ strategy that benefits community, the environment and employee wellbeing is a solemn corporate commitment. At such challenging times commercially, finding a cost-efficient way to live up to that commitment...
How AP Automation Helps Business Recovery and Cost Control
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Of course, being completely on top of your accounts payable despite the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic is vital if cashflow is to be maintained. And it is in this aspect that AP Automation can help greatly in the recovery and cost cont...
5 Ways A Digital Mailroom Can Boost Your Business’s Recovery In 2022
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The past 12 months have been something of a drain on optimism. Between Covid-19 safety requirements and lockdown restrictions, business has been injured significantly. So, finding ways to lower costs and improve the bottom line is more important than...
Invoice Automation: How Return On Investment in 1 Year is Possible
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For every business, adopting technology is welcome as long as the change brings with it genuine benefits. It is a matter of Return On Investment. Despite reports of fast and impressive Returns On Investment, resistance to invoice automation prevails....
3 of the Biggest Challenges in the Finance Function in 2021, And Solutions
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There can be little argument over the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on business. It has created an unexpected strain both financially and operationally speaking and, as a result, a whole new set of challenges for 2021. But what are the biggest...
How a dealership unlocks complete visibility in the finance function
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
M50 Truck & Van Centre was dealing with manual input of data which was extremely time-consuming process for the AP team. This slow process began to cause delays in payments to suppliers, who in turn would re-send the invoices, thus creating numer...
Time To Budget For AP Automation In 2021 – Why Now?
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Time to budget for AP Automation in 2021: now is the time. Read about the benefits & return on investment an AP Automation solution can deliver to your business.
It is The Year Of A Paperless Accounts Payable Department
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It’s already widely accepted that paper-based processing procedures are too slow, too labour intensive and ultimately too costly. The modern business world demands greater efficiency in every department – and there are no signs of this trend rele...
Top Tips to Choosing the Right AP Invoice Automation Solution Provider
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The benefits of switching from a manual accounts payable process to an automated one are no secret. Numerous studies have highlighted the boost AP automation can have to efficiency, data accuracy and data security. But when choosing the right AP invo...
Why Invoice Fraud Is Real And How AP Automation Can Protect You
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The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses into making changes to their processes. But in some cases, this has increased company vulnerability, particularly to threats like invoice fraud with opportunist fraudsters taking ad...
How Innovative Technology Is Benefiting Your AP Process
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The impact innovative technology has had on the business world has been immense. It’s not just been in customer services and manufacturing; it’s also made traditionally laborious areas, like accounting processes, more efficient making the tasks o...
5 Tips To Make Back Office Remote Work Easier In The Coronavirus Crisis
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These days, remote work is more a necessity than a preference. Even if offices are closed or manned by a skeleton staff, the work still has to be done. With so many people working from home, businesses face different challenges but, even in the coron...
How AP Automation Can Enhance Control And Visibility Across Your Business
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In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, businesses have been forced to face challenges that would not normally have appeared as key challenges. One such area is Control and Visibility, with procedures now largely being operated through remote w...
Why Document Management In The Cloud Is Better Than In The Cabinet
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Today’s working office is a place where technological and traditional methods are expected to work in harmony. Yet, some remain satisfied with paper documents in a filing cabinet. But the twin obligations of document management and data protection ...
AP Automation: How Your AP Team Can Work From Home Safely And Effectively
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With the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown restricting travel to work as well as everywhere else, the requirement on businesses to have employees work from home places pressure on productivity. It is especially true for Accounts Payable departments, but AP A...
8 Ways Digitally Capturing Documents Benefits Business Processes
BlogScanning and Capture
Through the decades, technology has provided a major boon to businesses and how they operate. From photocopiers to management apps, each generation has helped to fine-tune business processes. But digitally capturing your documents – Document Digiti...
How AP Automation Can Improve Collaboration in your Business
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Expanding your business is an understandable ambition, but there is a consequential challenge to keep things running smoothly. Documentation builds up, processes come under pressure and project teams can feel the strain. Effective collaboration is th...
How Implementing a Digital Mailroom Can Benefit Your Business
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Traditionally, the company mailroom has been seen as the most chaotic department in an organisation, flooded with packages and envelopes and a constant buzz of activity. But it was a drain on resources in terms of staff, time and cost. Today, the Dig...
New UK Late-Payment Measures Make A Reliable AP System Essential
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The significance of on-time payment hardly needs to be pointed out, but the role automated Accounts Payable (AP) systems play is often overlooked. An unreliable AP system can cause payments to be missed. With new UK measures set to severely punished ...
How Intelligent Information Management Breaks Down Information Silos
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An immense amount of business data is gathered over time and stored for retrieval whenever necessary. As more data gathers, it gets scattered across multiple locations, creating Information Silos and damaging key aspects like efficiency and productiv...
How a public sector organisation automates their AP Process
Customer StoriesInvoice Automation
Striving to embrace development and deliver professional, accurate and efficient standards, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service’s (ECFRS) busy finance department sought to update its existing scanning solution. Along with the Government’s dr...
DM Systems Are Not Just For Big Business And We Can Tell You Why
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Investing in a Document Management system makes a lot of sense for large companies whose administrative loads are notably heavy. But what about small businesses? DM systems can be just as beneficial to them, with several areas of the bottom line achi...
5 Facts You Need To Know About HMRC’s New MTD Regulations
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On April 1st, a new regulation comes into effect, changing how VAT-registered businesses manage their taxes and make their tax returns to HMRC. Making Tax Digital (or MTD) for VAT promises to make life easier for everyone, but do you understand what ...
Why Adoption Is The Love Your Digital Office Needs To Blossom
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February is a month where ‘relationships’ have a special focus. But while most of us worry about weekend breaks and roses, our relationship with work shouldn’t be forgotten, not least with our working environment. Loving your digital office by ...
Automated AP: Recruiters’ Solution to Contractors and Timesheet Management
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In the digital age, the recruitment industry faces new challenges created by modern work styles. It has made aspects like contractor placement and timesheet management, to name just two, as important services as recruitment itself. But Automated Acco...
4 Ways Cloud Storage Helps Increase Workplace Productivity
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There was a time when the office was the starting point and finishing point in every working day, even for employees whose days were mainly on the road. But Cloud storage has led to a change, where the office has become almost irrelevant. It’s not ...
Intelligent Information Management: Why IIM Is The Next Step Forward
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With companies today storing content electronically in multiple locations, orthodox search mechanisms often struggle to find what is being looked for as quickly as people wish. But the latest evolution in content management – Intelligent Informatio...
5 Key ECM and Data Storage Predictions For 2018
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Without doubt, this market has undergone some radical changes in recent years, but the next 12 months is set to bring even more. Between the impending implementation of the GDPR to developments in software and Cloud technology, the document and data ...
Scan On Demand: How SOD Can Serve A Client’s Daily Needs Better
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One of the challenges companies that outsource their document storage face is gaining access to specific files when they are not physically to hand. But Scan On Demand (SOD) services can negate any possible frustration, and enhance accessibility, cos...
World Paper Free Day: Find Out Why The Digital Office Makes Sense
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November 9th is World Paper Free Day, a day when businesses and individuals around the world are encouraged to work without using any paper.
AP Automation: How It Helps To Protect Against Internal Fraud
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The Accounts Payable (AP) department is one of the most sensitive in a company’s organisation. Invoice, account and client data are all critical, so keeping them in the trusted hands of trusted staff seems wise. But as Cloud technology continues to...
Electronic Content Management And How It Can Benefit Your Business
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It’s already well-known that information storage has become far more efficient than the old system of cabinets and cardboard boxes. But while many businesses are making use of Cloud technology and adopting digital document storage, there is still s...
6 Benefits Document Scanning Will Bring To Your Business
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The world has developed a love for retro, with products from furniture to home telephones available in the vintage designs of yesteryear. But not every sector is so susceptible to nostalgia. Traditional document filing systems are infamously painstak...
How Accounts Payable Automation Reduces More Than Just Hassle
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Any accountant can testify to how challenging properly managing payments to creditors can be. It’s a critical element of running a business, but software is helping to alleviate the pressure. In fact, Accounts Payable Automation is doing more than ...
The Rise of Dark Data and What It Means To Accounts Payable
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As any business in today’s digital, interconnected world knows, data is important. For most, it’s critical. Existing data is relied upon to run the company efficiently, whilst new data is generated at almost every instance. Indeed it’s this pro...
Creating Order From Chaos – Unlocking The True Value Of Data
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Information may be the world’s new currency, but with this proliferation of information – both physical and digital – there comes an integrated and pressing problem for all companies, regardless of sector: Information Chaos, a term firs...
4 Reasons Why Electronic Document Management is Vital to Your New Business
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Nobody likes dealing with paperwork. That’s especially true when you’ve just started a business and there are a hundred and one things to do. Document management is likely to be the least of your concerns, but if it isn’t done properly it could...
Government cheque consigned to history ahead of e-Day
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A Government cheque has been consigned to history at the National Museum of Ireland two weeks ahead of e-Day – the date on which Government departments and offices, local authorities and State agencies stop using cheques in their dealings with busi...
VAT: How Incorrect Invoicing Can Cost Your Business Thousands
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The Revenue Commissioners have recently been seeking payment of underpaid VAT in cases where taxpayers have issued incorrect VAT invoices and zero-rated supplies in error. The VAT regulations provide that the EU VAT number of the customer should be s...