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Vendor master hygiene: the quiet control behind clean payments
Duplicate vendors, stale bank details and missing tax data cause duplicate payments, fraud and compliance problems. A clean vendor master prevents all three. A practical guide to cleaning it and keeping it clean.
Ten checks to run before you close the month
Most close problems are found after the books are closed, when fixing them is slow and visible. These ten data checks catch the common ones while there is still time to correct them.
Where revenue leaks: 12 places to look this quarter
Most companies lose a slice of revenue they already earned. It hides in prices, discounts, contracts and billing. Here are twelve places to look, and the data that shows each one.
Continuous controls monitoring: a buyer’s guide
Continuous controls monitoring promises to test every transaction, every day. Before you buy, know which controls to start with, what an alert should look like and who will act on it.
Know every vendor by what it does: TPRM beyond questionnaires
Third-party risk programmes run on questionnaires that vendors fill in once a year. The risk shows up somewhere else: in payments, bank changes, filings and the news. Here is how to watch it.
Paying MSMEs in 45 days: what Section 43B(h) means for your P&L
Under India’s Income-tax Act, late payments to micro and small suppliers can cost you the tax deduction for that year. Here is how the rule works in outline, and how to know which invoices are at risk before year end.
The rolling forecast that explains itself
A forecast nobody trusts is a spreadsheet with opinions. A rolling forecast that shows its drivers, its accuracy and why it changed gets used. Here is how to build one.
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