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Accounts Receivable
Customer-Centric Billing Systems Yield Faster Payments and Strategic Advantages
April 07, 2025

In a world increasingly driven by efficiency, the way businesses handle invoicing and billing is undergoing a quiet, digital revolution. It couldn’t be happening at a better time. For decades, paper-based billing systems have burdened companies with excessive operational costs. The expense of printing, mailing...

CFO
Financial Visibility Helps CFOs Address Tariff Uncertainty
April 01, 2025

Uncertainty in financial markets is not new, but the scope and speed of today’s disruptions are unprecedented. As geopolitical tensions, fluctuating tariffs and economic unpredictability continue to ramp up, today’s chief financial officers (CFOs) find themselves at the forefront of navigating a role, and a...

Accounts Receivable
BillingPlatform Adds Payment Processing to Revenue Lifecycle Management Platform
March 27, 2025

BillingPlatform has added a payment processing solution called BP Pay to its enterprise revenue lifecycle management platform. With the addition of BP Pay, global enterprise customers can use one platform to monetize, collect and maximize payments, the company said in a Thursday (March 27) press...

Accounts Payable
Data Silos, Meet GenAI: The Next Frontier for CFOs Seeking AP Excellence
March 27, 2025

CFOs and payments leaders are faced with a challenge. To unlock the true potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in areas like accounts payable (AP), they must rethink how new systems interact with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, ensuring that innovation does not come...

Accounts Receivable
Chaser Integrates Automated AR Tools With Odoo ERP Software
March 25, 2025

Finance teams using Odoo enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now manage their accounts receivable (AR) with Chaser. Chaser launched an integration with Odoo, saying it provides automated AR tools like automated follow-ups and credit control tools that help businesses automate repetitive tasks and gain...

CFO
Threat of Tariffs Forces 65% of CFOs Into Supplier Showdowns
March 20, 2025

Ongoing global trade battles have caught America’s mid-sized companies in their crossfire. Unlike multinational giants with deep pockets, and small businesses able to pivot quickly, mid-sized firms can frequently find themselves in an awkward middle ground, big enough to feel the financial strain but not...

CFO
Ongoing Uncertainty Sees CFOs Embracing ‘Chess Master’ Planning Role
March 14, 2025

In today’s challenging operating environment, the role of the finance department is evolving from managing the books to shaping the future. Few periods have tested the finance function’s strategic mettle like the current landscape. While the role of the chief financial officer (CFO) has been...

CFO
Step by Step, Benchmarking Tool Forges Working Capital Roadmap as CFOs Battle Uncertainty
March 14, 2025

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For CFOs battling the tidal waves of uncertainty at home and abroad, recalibrating supplier and vendor relationships, cash flows and working capital, the limitations of spreadsheets and static information (a hammer) are fast...

Payroll
Digital Wallets Are Reinventing Cross-Border Payroll and Compliance
March 13, 2025

Cross-border payments are the holy grail of global commerce and among its biggest pain points. That cross-border pain, as well as those gains, can be multiplied even further when it comes to handling payroll. “Managing employees, contractors and contingent workers all over the world is...