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Today's CFO is tasked with ensuring that the finance team operates at peak performance, with an eye toward lowering costs, increasing speed, and reducing bottlenecks in the system. With competing priorities and busy teams, it's hard to know which initiatives will best move the needle. Because it is not necessarily viewed as strategic or innovative, the Accounts Payable department is often overlooked..

This eBook explores some of the key issues that CFOs need to consider when revamping the invoice-to-pay process.

o Identifying the current bottlenecks in the invoice-to-pay process

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o Build better relationships with vendors through better payment processes

Tax season 2017 took a step backward as it went into the last weekend. After a season marked by week-by-week improvement, most figures from the Internal Revenue Service for the season through April 14 fell behind the corresponding period ended April 15, 2016.

Xero has introduced machine learning automation into its cloud-based financial software. The company says that the new technology means that the software will learn to perform such tasks as recording invoices against the proper account without business owners having to worry about making a mistake.

Xero has established the position of chief partner officer. The company recently named Anna Curzon to the new role. Curzon had served as managing director for New Zealand for the last year for the cloud software accounting company.