Some Accounting and Bookkeeping Basics.

Invoice Handling: The Three-Way Match and More.

Checks: The Traditional Payment Mechanism.

Exception Handling and Those Dreaded Rush Checks.

Preventing Duplicate Payments and Other Common Errors.

Paying Lost or Missing Invoices without Creating Additional Problems.

Improving the Relationship with Purchasing.

Master Vendor Files: An Often-Overlooked Function.

Discounts, Deductions, and the Problems They Cause.

Travel and Entertainment: The Traditional Functions.

Travel and Entertainment in the Twenty-First Century.

Electronic Data Interchange: The Key to a Paperless Accounts Payable World.

Using the Internet in Accounts Payable.

Extensible Markup Language: What Account Payable Pros Need to Know.

Procurement Cards and Their Impact on the Accounts Payable Function.

Fraud: Vendor, Employee, and Check.

How Companies Are Now Using Technology in Accounts Payable.

High-Level Accounts Payable Concepts.

Managing Your First Accounts Payable Department.

Accounts Payable in the Twenty-First Century.

Additional Resources.

Index.