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From purchase to payment

A Financial Controller’s guide to closing the gaps. Follow one £8,400 purchase through ten stages and six handovers, and see where control slips between them.

Inside, you'll learn:

Where control slips at each of the ten stages, from the need to the audit
The questions to ask your team at every handover
A 15-point purchase-to-payment scorecard, and how to close the gaps without adding people

19 pages · 10 stages · UK edition

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What's inside

Control lives in the handovers

01Ten stages, six handovers
One purchase followed from the need to the audit, with what should happen at each stage.
02Where control slips
Retrospective POs, split purchases, missed receipts and changed bank details.
03The handover map
What gets lost at each handover, and the fix.
04Your purchase-to-payment scorecard
Fifteen statements, scored out of 30, and where to start.

Written for the people who sign it off and the people who make it work

For the decision-maker

Financial Controller, Finance Director

A stage-by-stage view of where control slips, the questions to ask your team, and a scorecard to measure progress.

For the team doing the work

AP, procurement and budget holders

What should happen at each step you own, and what gets lost when a transaction moves to the next person.

stages from need to payment, with six handovers between them

250+ hrs

a month of keying, matching and chasing at 1,500 invoices a month

73%

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