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What Is Maverick Spend & How Do You Prevent It?Untracked purchasing quietly erodes procurement savings in organizations across every industry. Companies that purchase outside of approved supplier contracts (a practice known as maverick spending) lose 10-50% of their negotiated savings. This…
Today’s accounts receivable (AR) teams today face familiar challenges: growing workloads, increasing customer expectations and constant pressure to improve performance — often without the aid of additional headcount.As invoice volumes rise and customer interactions become more complex, many AR…
For Procurement and Finance teams, the real question isn't whether AI is coming — it's where can it deliver meaningful business value today? The organizations seeing the best results aren't experimenting with AI for the sake of innovation. Instead, they're applying AI Smart Source-to-Pay Technology…
Across Europe, governments are accelerating the move toward mandatory e-invoicing, and for many companies, the clock is already ticking. Countries such as Belgium, France and Poland are introducing structured e-invoicing requirements that affect not only domestic businesses, but also international…
Keeping your footing when the ground won’t stop movingNobody trained us for this. We were taught that finance is about control. We enjoy the comfort of precision, the beauty of balance sheets that tie to the penny, the predictability of forecasts built on neat historical data.But look around.…
It’s like fumbling the football a yard from the end zone. As a business, you work so hard to brand yourself well, get the sale, and make the onboarding process easy, only to drop the ball when it comes to providing ongoing customer service.If your customer service sucks, what does that say about…
It’s like fumbling the football a yard from the end zone. As a business, you work so hard to brand yourself well, get the sale, and make the onboarding process easy, only to drop the ball when it comes to providing ongoing customer service.If your customer service sucks, what does that say about…
Generative AI has radically transformed expectations for business innovation. However the large language models (LLMs) that form the foundation of GenAI have limitations: inaccurate outputs, unverifiable responses, outdated data and, in some cases, hallucinations. For CFOs and decision makers, this…
For years, finance leaders have focused on resolving pain points — catching missed invoices, correcting reporting errors and managing manual processes. But today, the Office of the CFO has the opportunity to do more than fix what’s broken. With enterprise-wide visibility and deep data insight,…
Hi, I'm Jo — recently joined Esker as a Pre-Sales Consultant based in Sydney.With eight years of experience in business process automation, particularly in Purchase-to-Pay and AP automation, my background spans solution design, implementation, and continuous improvement. I’m excited…
Getting back into the swing of things after the slow days of summer is never easy. Aside from catching up on emails, it’s also time to look at the coming quarters and plan accordingly. This all in addition to the usual pressures of improving working capital without expanding headcount or increasing…
The cost of capital is no longer just a technical variable in financial models: It has become a strategic compass for the modern CFO. In a context where 82% of CFOs have seen their role expand well beyond the confines of the Finance department, understanding and optimizing WACC (Weighted Average…
I’m Himanshu Narwani, and I’m excited to join the Esker team as a Business Development Manager, where I’ll be focusing on winning new logos and helping expand Esker’s market share. Over the past 16 years, I’ve worked across advertising and financial services, holding various sales roles…
If you're responsible for the financial health of your organization, knowing the right accounts receivable (AR) metrics to monitor—and how to improve them—is essential. The right key performance indicators (KPIs) don’t just measure your AR performance; they help shape smarter strategies to improve…
In offices across Australia, not long ago, Accounts Payable (AP) teams spent hours manually entering invoices, chasing approvals, and correcting errors. But with the arrival of accounts payable automation, these teams experienced a dramatic shift — achieving new levels of speed, accuracy, and…
Imagine managing the credit department of a company and discovering that the payments you were expecting haven’t arrived. Frustrating, right? Now you have to send payment reminders to customers. Although it can seem like an annoying task, sending invoice payment reminders is essential to…