AP Expo 2013 Announces Workshop on Accounts Payable Strategy and Leadership, Facilitated by North American Practice Lead of The Hackett Group
Portland, Maine (PRWEB) July 30, 2013 -- Penny S. Weller, Ph.D., CMA, North American Practice Lead for The Hackett Group’s Global Business Services, will lead “AP Strategy & Leadership for a Changing Business Environment,” one of several concurrent workshops taking place on day one of the 12th Annual Accounts Payable 2013 Conference & Expo. Scheduled for Oct. 21-24, 2013, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, NV, AP Expo 2013 is an event produced by the Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM), a business unit within Diversified Business Communications. Attendees may register for AP Expo 2013 here. Among the professional education opportunities at AP Expo 2013 will be the Form 1099 Certification Bootcamp and AP Certification Workshop, as well as the related certification exams.
"Penny Weller has led this popular workshop several times at AP Expo," said RD Whitney, executive director of IOFM. "We’re pleased to have her back. The AP department’s challenge, year in and year out, is to demonstrate leadership and show that it can be a strategic arm for the organization. Penny shows attendees of her workshop just how to show the business at large the highest possible value of accounts payable.”
A robust accounts payable agenda drives AP Expo 2013, the only AP membership meeting strictly focused on accounts payable education and practical approaches to automation, leadership and process improvements. AP Expo 2013 welcomes Platinum Sponsor Perceptive Software, as well as a long list of sponsors at the Gold and Silver levels, too. Information on how to sponsor the AP Expo 2013 is available.
The Hackett Group is a world leader in best practice research, benchmarking and business transformation services that empirically define and enable world-class enterprise performance. A Six-Sigma Black Belt and Certified Master Trainer, Dr. Weller has managed large-scale merger and system transitions and process improvement initiatives in activity based management and balanced scorecards.
Dr. Weller’s workshop will help attendees to see accounts payable through the eyes of senior leadership, assisting them in understanding the need to align AP with key, high-level stakeholders’ expectations. Attendees will learn how to position their department for favorable interactions with organizational leadership and manage staff to approach their roles in ways that help to achieve these objectives.
Others will join Weller in presenting a series of concurrent workshops on the event’s first day:
Emerging Topics in Accounts Payable at Colleges & Universities
Monday, Oct. 21, 9:00am-4:00pm
Kerry Schmidt, APM (with distinction), Director of Accounting Operations, University of Louisville
Get in the Game! How to Build a Winning AP Automation Plan
Monday, Oct. 21, 9:00am-12:00noon
Henry Ijams, APM, Managing Director, PayStream Advisors
Detecting and Preventing Accounts Payable Fraud
Monday, Oct. 21, 9:00am-12:00noon
Chris Doxey, CAPP, CCSA, CISA, Executive Director, IOFM’s Controller’s Certification Program
AP Strategy & Leadership for a Changing Business Environment
Monday, Oct. 21, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Penny S. Weller, PhD, CMA, Global Business Services, North American Practice Lead
The Hackett Group
Ten Critical Success Factors to Launch, Manage and Further Your e-invoicing Project
Monday, Oct. 21, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Susie West, CEO, sharedserviceslink.com
How to Clean Up Your Vendor Master File and Keep It Clean
Monday, Oct. 21, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Jon Casher, APM, President, Casher Associates, Inc.
Achieving Today's Accounts Payable Mandate: Get Profitable!
Monday, Oct. 21, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Tom Glassanos, President, Bavelos Group
About AP Expo 2013
Through study of world-class accounts payable departments' best practices, attendees of AP Expo 2013 will learn the latest thinking on how to improve their own operations. The latest tools and approaches to save money and avoid fines will be on display and explored at AP Expo 2013, where accounts payable practitioners will find a climate conducive to advancing their professionalism. There, they will network with and draw inspiration from their peers. To receive up-to-date information on the show, anyone, including AP professionals and organizations whose areas of discipline intersect with the IOFM's, follow @AP_Expo.
About the Institute of Finance & Management
Every year, the Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM) produces the Accounts Payable Conference & Expo by drawing on more than two decades' worth of experience. With highly regarded publications, webinars, training tools and seminars, conferences and more, IOFM—recently acquired by Diversified Business Communications—is the leading resource for information and tools across its many areas of focus: Corporate Financial Management; Accounts Payable; Credit, Receivables & Collections; and Corporate Security & Safety. Publishers of newsletters such as Controller's Report and Managing Accounts Payable, IOFM is a teeming source year round of news, benchmarks, strategic thought and best practices for budgeting and cost control management research.
RD Whitney, Diversified Business Communications, 207-842-5601, [email protected]
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