The Roadmap to Streamlining Accounts Payable

IKON has teamed with Goodman & Associates in sponsorship of this free workshop. Nat Goodman CPA, APM, MBA and President of Goodman & Associates will lead this information-packed morning session which will earn three (3) CPE hours. He will outline a step-by-step methodology which will enable the financial manager to assess their disbursement performance in an effort to drive process improvement.

The workshop will concentrate on:

• Employing benchmarks and metrics to assess your AP process
• Balancing your scorecard
• Examining performance gaps
• Recognizing accounting & organizational disparities (Pitfalls)
• Focusing on what drives AP productivity and quality
• Identifying e-solutions
• Prioritizing process improvements
• Selecting vendors

Workshop Leader

Nat Goodman is credited with significant consulting accomplishments on five continents. Nat served as the corporate comptroller for Sears Roebuck de Mexico and the controller for Hartmarx Specialty Stores. He was manager of various individual shared-service functions including AP, payroll, general ledger, credit cards, etc.

He is the author of the International Accounts Payable professionals’ 200 Page CAPP Certification Manual and the 100 Page Accounts Payable Manual for Associates, which are the basis for their respective certification exams. Additionally, Nat was managing editor of the IAPP Newsletter. Nat is now concentrating on payables/procurement in the form of speaking engagements, seminars, writing and consulting. He co-authored IOMA’s 300+ page Complete Guide to Accounts Payable Best Practices along with their recently issued AP Shared Service Benchmarking and Analysis research report. In 2009, his Complete Guide to AP Fraud and Internal Control will be published.

Register here and an email confirmation will be sent to you with full agenda and location.