Welcome to the Duplicate Payment Resource Center!

This resource center is packed with free diagnostic tools, tips, and best duplicate payment obliteration practices. It stretches over several pages so be sure to roam around and find them all!

Take Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow's duplicate payment challenge & find YOUR duplicate danger zone! Download the duplicate payment challenge (pdf format) here.

AP Tips

Remember to set stringent rules over how employees’ names are entered into the master vendor file. Decide whether you are going to put first name first or last. While there is no right way–other than everyone doing it the same–we strongly recommend last name first.

International Accounts Payable Professionals is internationally recognized as the trustworthy guidance-setting association for the accounts payable profession.

Serving members throughout the world, IAPP is the AP professional’s global voice, chief advocate, recognized authority, acknowledged leader, and principal educator on all AP operational, regulatory, leadership, tax, control, and fraud-related topics.

Together, the IAPP and its sister organization, International Accounts Receivable Professionals, have more than 5,000 members in 70 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and provide training, conferences, knowledge sharing, certification, online resources, AP Matters and AR Matters magazines, and more.

For more information, visit www.TheIAPP.org and www.TheIARP.org.

Periodicals for All Professionals

For your accounts payable staff, our monthly Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow newsletter, the leading source of accounts payable information for the business and finance community. We offer a host of products and services designed to advance your department, your company, and your career.

For your CFO & controller, our quarterly CFO & Controllers' Accounts Payable Management Journal, must-have information to help you strengthen controls and cut costs intelligently.

For those concerned about controls, AP Now's Quarterly Diagnostic. Once a quarter we analyse the latest must-know developments and emerging best practices and get them out to you pronto via electronic publication and podcast.

And for everyone our free weekly e-AP News!

Stop Duplicate Payments in Their Tracks: A 13-Step Precautionary Plan of Attack

To quote Jimmy Buffett, everyone has them and no one knows what to do with them. While Buffett may have been talking about relationships, we’re talking about duplicate payments and we know what to do with them—get rid of them. But how? To continue, click here. Or download a pdf version of Stop Duplicate Payments in Their Tracks.

Did you know that firms that never clean up their master vendor file substantially increase their odds of making duplicate payments? When was the last time your master vendor file was cleansed?

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