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Send us Fan Mail Did you know that there were states that require you to determine if non-resident withholding is necessary for your vendors prior to the first payment? Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments.  Subscr...

Send us Fan Mail Do you have a Canadian Vendor to setup and need some resources to make sure you are verifying tax registration numbers, address formats, watch lists and banking information? Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to prevent fraudu...

Send us Fan Mail Are you ready to clean your vendor master file and would like to hear about three tools can help you validate vendor data and find duplicate vendors?   Keep listening.   Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments.    Su...

Send us Fan Mail Do you have an upcoming or are you living through a Merger or Acquisition of another companies Accounts Payable activity into yours?  My guest today Robert E Bendetti JR is a CPA and here to talk about what 3 critical areas you should be focusing on. Topics Covered: Learn what you should do first with their AP team before you start the merging processes Learn Working Capital strat...

Send us Fan Mail Wondering what Machine learning can do for Accounts Payable?  My guest today Mikko Hytönen, CEO of Dooap is here to share with you how you may already be using It, and if not, how you can start. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best pract...

Send us Fan Mail Reviewing an article from nsKnox on Sox compliance and why it is not enough to protect your company against fraud. Whether you are a public company and are required to follow Sox controls or chose voluntarily follow if you are a private company – this episode is for you.   Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master fi...

Send us Fan Mail Rhea Galsim is my podcast guest today and we are talking about CSNP,  a 501c3 Non-Profit organization that provides free cyber safety training for organizations and individuals.  If you are a Small to Medium-sized Business (SMB) that needs a free resource on cyber safety or you are individual that wants to get started or further their career in cybersecurity with an organization t...

Send us Fan Mail If you are one of many AP teams that are now starting to look at implementing or upgrading AP Automation tools, then you need to listen to my guest Rhea Galsim.  She will discuss audits to evaluate cloud-based applications to protect your company from potential data breaches, how to reduce risks, and stay cyber safe using cloud applications.  Topics Covered:  Soc 1 and Soc 2 Audit...

Send us Fan Mail Back talking about vendor self-registration portals this week expanding on one of the three ways to increase vendor adoption I recommended in Episode 85:  by not making it complicated – or keeping it simple.   Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls...

Send us Fan Mail Vendor Self-Registration Portals as a result of the current Pandemic and what may be the new normal for Accounts Payable or AP may be getting a 2nd look.  Whether you are looking at implementing a Vendor Self Registration Portal, getting back to the stalled project, or looking to increase your adoption rates for your current portal – this episode is for you.   Keep listening. Chec...

Send us Fan Mail Can you use a tool used to check for fraudulent invoices sent via email to check for fraud in vendor changes sent via email?  Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments.  Subscribe today to be entered in...

Send us Fan Mail I know that due to recent events many of you are putting in extra effort to convert check payment vendors to ACH/EFT.  Well, Cybercriminals also know and are taking advantage.  Think. Digital Partners have reported that hackers attacked the world’s businesses 22 million times between April 13th and April 19th. This episode I talk about ways you can automate authentication to avoid...

Send us Fan Mail Today I have Diogène Ntirandekura on the podcast talking SAP and how the Vendor Master File is affected by and affects the purchasing, inventory, and invoice processes.  Diogène is an SAP Consultant and SAP S4 Hana SME in multiple modules and gives us some insight, tips, and recommendations including how his goal is to curate a positive relationship between clients and consultants...

Send us Fan Mail During the Global Shelter in place, requirements were you or your team stuck at home trying to do research on invoices or complex vendor requests, but the key data you needed was back at the office in your desk files or file cabinets?  Today I have on the podcast Keith Wasnok, and he is going to talk all about Document Scanning so that you can be prepared if you have to work remot...

Send us Fan Mail As of the recording of this podcast, the third week of April, the world is still in varying stages of the Global Coronavirus pandemic and shelter in place requirements. Many companies and their AP teams were abruptly sent home to work whether the company or the employee was prepared to deal with, among other things,  the increased cybersecurity risks.  Today I have on the podcast,...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am talking with self-proclaimed (but I agree) “Pretty Cool” Dr. Germaine Walker, Freelance Dr. of Cybersecurity, and author of The Book About IT Leadership That Is Not Really About IT - Managing the SMEs .   We discuss leadership, cybersecurity, motivating employees and tips on being safe while working remotely, working in the office or traveling.   We discuss:  How he fou...

Send us Fan Mail Today I have Dan French, CEO of Consider Solutions on the podcast to talk about survey results that give insights on the global end-to-end Source to Pay process including pain points and whether management is focusing on those pain points.  Dan also talks about what role behavior plays and what surprised or assured him in the results.  Is technology the silver bullet? What role do...

Send us Fan Mail As we all continue to navigate home and professional life due to Social Distancing requirements amid uncertain times the ability to perform work at home can be a concern for Accounts Payable Leaders and Professionals.   Today I have a guest Karim M Jinnah and AP Automation Business Advisor from Yooz, Inc.  Yooz, Inc is a leading cloud-based automation solution provider, that was r...

Send us Fan Mail Are you working remotely and find that processing Accounts Payable Vendor requests take longer and are harder complete when you are not in the office?  Let’s take a look at Vendor Self-Registration Portals and see how they can help you and your teamwork better remotely.  Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file...

Send us Fan Mail Is both your Accounts Payable (AP) Vendor team AND vendor working from home due to the coronavirus COVID-19?  What do you do when you have vendor changes and can’t make that confirmation?  Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to...

Send us Fan Mail Are you and/or your Accounts Payable (AP) Vendor team working from home due to the coronavirus COVID-19?  Want to know how to track productivity so you can prove your or your team are rock stars at home?   Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal controls and...

Send us Fan Mail The New York Shield Act will go into effect on March 21, 2020, for the State of New York residents.  The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) began enforcement on January 1, 2020, for the State of California residents and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)  began enforcement in May 2018 for residents in EEA countries.   What does that have to do with Vendor Maintenance? ...

Send us Fan Mail Cybercriminals are evolving their fraud tactics every day to get fraudulent payments.  Next hear about what actions companies took against two employees that fell for scams and what you can do to protect yourself.   Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementing authentication techniques, internal con...

Send us Fan Mail If you are wondering how commercial card programs can make Accounts Payable more efficient this is the podcast for you.  I am going to talk about a part of my journey as an AP Manager and how I used commercial cards – and no, it’s not all about rebates.   Keep listening.  Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help cleaning your vendor master file or implementin...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a Putting in the AP in Happy and now there is Happy AP in the UK.  My podcast guest today is the founder of Happy AP and she is talking about something that will make AP teams across the pond Happy, at least for this year, about “Brexit” and how she found her “Happy” in two AP activities that you may not equate with making you happy – but she did.   Keep listening. Check o...