Audio Conferences

Accounts Payable Shared Services: Must-Have Metrics and Best Practices

October 3, 2007 at 02:00PM ET

Here�s a rare chance to hear an AP Shared Services veteran review newly-analyzed, concise data from a just-completed, exclusive IOMA survey of 100+ organizations that have successfully opened AP shared services centers.

Accounts payable expert Nat Goodman, who spent years in the shared services trenches, will interpret this new data to help you with the decisions you have to make NOW in analyzing the benefits to your organization of building an SSC (a Shared Services Center).

Believe it or not, making your decision to go to the Shared Services route is the easy part.

It�s the transition that�s tough. You can spend literally man-weeks of planning and negotiation, sorting and resorting, thinking and rethinking...from designing the SSC to agreeing on controls & processes...to picking the right location, staffing numbers and supervision to deciding on cost allocations...to developing service & service level agreements.

This 90-minute interactive audio conference will cover:

Compelling factors for developing an AP Shared Services Center
An overview of the benefits of shared services in a variety of types of organizations
Kinds of organizations that can expect benefits to continue significantly beyond the short term
Characteristics that drive high SSC-AP headcount reductions where others
Which kinds of organizations are enhancing what AP processes
Top Key Performance Indicators tracked by varying SSC classes and styles
And much more

The new IOMA research also reveals important processing cost and productivity figures, so you can budget for the transition and benchmark against your own operation.

Get all your toughest questions answered in the Q&A session following the discussion. AND, you can invite your entire department�for one low price!

Featured Faculty:

Nat Goodman, APM, CPA, MBA
President, Goodman & Associates

Presenter Nat Goodman, APM, CPA, MBA, has been a shared-service center manager in five different functional areas as well as comptroller/controller for Sears Roebuck de Mexico and Hartmarx Specialty Stores. Additionally, he has over 15 years of consulting on five continents. He has presented over 700 seminars worldwide and written comprehensive AP manuals. He is a senior consultant with IOMA.

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