accounts receivable

Accounts receivable, abbreviated as AR or A/R, are legally enforceable claims for payment held by a business for goods supplied or services rendered that customers have ordered but not paid for.

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Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back.

Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back.
Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It...
September 28, 2026  |  Working Capital

Picture the CFO at a $300 million industrial distributor. For three years she paid her key suppliers on day 10 of a net 30 invoice...

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Working Capital Has Lost Its Strategic Edge
Working Capital Has Lost Its Strategic Edge
September 28, 2026  |  Working Capital

The early bird used to get a supplier discount. These days, it may still be waiting for the customer to pay. Across North America, more...

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Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?
Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?
September 24, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The oldest tension in B2B payments is becoming one of its newest business models. A dollar cannot simultaneously stay longer on the buyer’s balance sheet...

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Ramp Debuts AR Tool to Keep Finance Teams From Chasing Payments
Ramp Debuts AR Tool to Keep Finance Teams From Chasing Payments
September 22, 2026  |  Accounts Receivable

Ramp has introduced a tool designed to automate invoicing and payment collections for corporate clients. Ramp Accounts Receivable, announced Tuesday (Sept. 22), allows the FinTech’s clients to...

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CFOs Shrink Their Bank Dashboards With Self-Reconciling B2B Payments
CFOs Shrink Their Bank Dashboards With Self-Reconciling B2B Payments
August 26, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The real problem in modern receivables isn’t whether cash moves electronically but that payment and remittance information increasingly arrive separately, through portals, email, enterprise resource...

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Tariff Refunds Turn Old B2B Invoices Into Claims on Cash
Tariff Refunds Turn Old B2B Invoices Into Claims on Cash
August 20, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The $100 billion U.S. tariff unwind isn’t just a legal exercise for enterprise firms; it’s exposing a crucial piece of B2B infrastructure. More than 40...

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Amex Ventures Funds Fazeshift’s Agentic AI Expansion Beyond Accounts Receivable
Amex Ventures Funds Fazeshift’s Agentic AI Expansion Beyond Accounts Receivable
August 11, 2026  |  Investments

Fazeshift has secured an investment from Amex Ventures to help expand its artificial intelligence agent platform beyond accounts receivable and into additional finance operations, Fazeshift...

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Fiserv and Stuut Team to Bring AI Agents to Accounts Receivable 
Fiserv and Stuut Team to Bring AI Agents to Accounts Receivable 
August 05, 2026  |  Accounts Receivable

Payments/financial services technology company Fiserv has teamed with accounts receivable automation firm Stuut Technologies. With this collaboration, the companies will help eligible enterprise finance teams modernize manual and...

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