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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

The centers employ several thousand employees who provided accounts payable and receivables services to the firm's business units.). An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers.

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A Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Contractors

Harvard Business Review

We defined contractors as professionals who work on time-based (as opposed to project-based freelance) contracts. For example, a company may hire an accounts payable professional to help cover a particularly busy time period or to backfill for someone on leave.

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The Best Accounting Platforms for a Growing Business

Zenefits

If your team is currently burdened by the following, it may be time for an upgrade: Too many accounting tasks. Long accounts receivable, or payment, wait times. Even longer account payable timelines. Frequent duplicate payments and accounting errors. No accounting strategy. Project Management.