Matching Invoices and Checks—How Much Verifying Is Enough?
April 2003
Accounts payable executives are constantly faced with a Solomon-like dilemma. They have to weigh
the benefit of intensive manual, checking to catch errors against the cost of allocating scarce human
resources to those manual, seemingly non-value-added, tasks. One of those jobs is the matching of checks
to invoices. Is it worth the time and effort? That’s exactly what one intrepid accounts payable professional
asked in a recent exchange on IOMA’s accounts payable discussion group.
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