Leadership

Gilda De Lima, APM, APS and CPRS, is the Accounts Payable Supervisor at VSP Vision, the largest vision benefits company in the U.S. She shared her career experiences with IOFM, discussing how she got… Read More

Chances are, if you are an IOFM Member, you have benefitted from the advice of Debra R. Richardson. Debra is Founder and President of Debra R. Richardson, LLC, and is IOFM’s third party Vendor… Read More

When you work for a company like Metra Commuter Rail System, a major rail agency serving six counties in the Chicago area, you are likely to hear a lot of train-related references. AP Director… Read More

Q. I am looking to create a staffing model to review with senior leaders as we continue to grow and transform as an organization. Do you have templates or best practices as our KPIs continue to be… Read More

Q. I am working on a project for my Accounts Payable team in regards to compensation and growth. We are looking at is making the AP Specialist position tiered to allow for growth and… Read More

By Pam Miller, APMD - Managers who have mastered the arts of delegation and empowerment are likely to find that their staffs outperform those of managers who have not done so. Delegation is an… Read More

Q. Do you know of any resources that highlights statistics from a survey on the challenges that AP departments are facing today? Example, the Censuswide released a survey and found that 72 percent… Read More

I am trying to locate information to use in a presentation on AP -- for lack of a better description, AP 101 to teach a group of people not experienced in AP what end to end looks like, etc. Can you… Read More

Most AP departments are staffed by groups of people who may or may not have anything in common besides the fact that they work together. AP staffers may be young with little actual work experience,… Read More