Insights on accounts payable automation, Peppol eInvoicing, AP governance, and the practical reality of running finance operations for Australian and New Zealand mid-market businesses. Written by practitioners, not marketers.
It starts innocuously enough. A supplier invoice arrives, someone forwards it to the relevant manager and back comes a reply: “Approved.” The AP team processes it. Everyone moves on. It’s fast. It’s familiar. It works. Until it doesn’t. Invoice approval workflow automation is the practice of automatically routing supplier invoices to the correct approvers based […]
Read the full article →A fleet manager at a large national account calls your operations team. One of their vehicles was serviced at a dealer location last month. The invoice they’ve received doesn’t match what they expected, with different line items and…
Read article →The quarterly VAN invoice arrives the same way it always does. Your IT team processes it without much scrutiny, it’s one of those recurring costs that’s been in the budget for so long, it’s stopped being a line…
Read article →Most AP automation projects stall not because the software fails, but because the system it needs to talk to wasn’t built to listen. That’s the reality for a large proportion of ANZ mid-market businesses. The finance team wants…
Read article →Every year, AP teams lose money they didn’t know they had. Invoices that were never submitted still appear on a supplier’s statement, quietly accumulating late fees. Credit notes issued months ago have never been applied. None of this…
Read article →In 2024, Australians lost over $2 billion to scams, according to the National Anti-Scam Centre’s Targeting Scams report. Payment redirection, where a fraudster intercepts an invoice and swaps in their own bank details, remained one of the top…
Read article →Some ANZ finance teams apply a value threshold to their PO decisions. Invoices above $1,000 need a purchase order. Invoices below that threshold go straight to code and approve. It’s a tidy rule. It’s also the wrong one.…
Read article →A property management company with fourteen branches receives a monthly insurance invoice. It needs to be split across every branch by percentage, coded to the correct GL accounts, and posted to the accounting system. In most organisations, that…
Read article →Multi-entity AP automation is the practice of running a consistent, governed accounts payable workflow across multiple legal entities, each with its own accounting system, GL structure, and approval rules, on a single platform. For ANZ groups running Xero…
Read article →MYOB has been the accounting backbone of ANZ mid-market businesses for decades. Its two cloud versions, MYOB Business for SMEs and MYOB Advanced for larger mid-market businesses, provide solid chart of accounts management, financial reporting, payroll, and core…
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