When it comes to choosing the next step, automating your company’s AP processes can be a game-changer by allowing your finance team to focus on work that makes an impact for the business. During this live session, experts from SAP Concur will discuss some of the biggest hurdles AP leaders are facing today, and how automation helps them persevere.

Attendees will walk away from the session with tips to improve their AP processes and address economic, staffing, and business continuity challenges. You’ll be able to:

• Understand trends impacting the acceleration of digital transformation.
• Speak to the costs of manual invoice processing and the benefits of automating it.
• Take foundational steps to evaluate the level of automation within a business.
• Build consensus for automation within your business.
• Learn how to select a solution and vendor to automate invoice processes.

Program level: Basic (no prerequisites required).
Field of Study: Accounting

Presented by

Bobby Hodges is a Senior Product & Solution GTM Strategy Manager at Concur who has spent over 8 years with SAP in roles at SAP Ariba, SAP NS2, SAP and now SAP Concur. Bobby enjoys traveling, learning about technology and in the winter months, skiing.

Mike Anderson is a Senior Solutions Consultant with SAP Concur.

Gail Perry, CPA, is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor. A veteran of accounting journalism, she also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars. Gail is the author of over 30 books (including Mint.com For Dummies, The Idiot’s Guide to Introductory Accounting, and Surviving Financial Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less Income), and she maintains a small tax practice. Gail is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, earned her CPA, and worked for Deloitte in Chicago for several years as a state and local tax accountant. She has taught introductory accounting and personal finance courses, and she is a former computer applications instructor at the Indiana CPA Society. Gail is a member of the AICPA’s PFS Credential Committee.

This FREE online webinar is a continuation of CPA Practice Advisor’s mission to provide unbiased, independent information on technologies available to practicing public accountants and tax professionals.

Special thanks to our sponsor for supporting this educational session:

SAP^® Concur^® is the world’s leading brand for integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions, driven by a relentless pursuit to simplify and automate these everyday processes. The highly-rated SAP^® Concur^® mobile app guides employees through business trips, charges are directly populated into expense reports, and invoice approvals are automated. By integrating near real-time data and using AI to analyze transactions, businesses can see what they’re spending, improve compliance, and avoid possible blind spots in the budget. SAP Concur solutions help eliminate yesterday’s tedious tasks, make today’s work easier, and support businesses to run at their best. Learn more at concur.com or the SAP Concur blog.

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