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AP Association 2018 Conference Round-up

Jamie Radford’s Welcome

The conference kicked off with an enthusiastic welcome by Jamie Radford, addressing the room of an amazing 220 delegates – 3 times as many attendees as last year! This only goes to prove how important conferences like this are. As the leading accounts payable resource in the UK, Accounts Payable Association will continue to provide industry-leading courses and run conferences and other workshops including this APA Conference (which is now CPD accredited and that’s a big step forward for AP Association). The current courses

The move towards implementing robots in businesses can be both frightening and exciting. Many people are scared about what the future holds for work life if robots are able to take over part or all of their job function. Robots can take over various functions but what they can’t do is the cognitive side of what a human can do.

For this reason they will likely never completely take over job roles and humans will always be needed to oversee and complement what robots do. Artificial intelligence is on the move

Identifying the top five areas where business lose out on employee expenses is the focus for a forthcoming webinar session by webexpenses’ Tom Price.

The expenses specialist is taking part in a special APA (Accounts Payable Association) event that’s designed to share knowledge on smarter ways to manage such a difficult area of company finances.

It’s a knowledge that’s based on webexpenses’ vast experience, helping organisations throughout the globe to effectively manage, monitor and police their employees’ out-of-office costs.

How to control expense costs

The details of the webinar, presented by APA CEO Jamie

After an amazingly successful AP Association Annual Conference and Expo this year, we wanted to highlight some of the fantastic comments that we received on the day. I could write a lengthy essay on the day but since there was so much feedback, it was felt that it would be best left to one-word displays and quotes from the many lovely attendees…

If you did not attend the conference but would like to read more about the day’s events, click here to read the round-up. In the meantime, if you attended,

Bitcoin. A word we have all heard so often but a lot of us don’t actually know what it is. Yes, it’s a digital currency that could increase drastically and make us a lot of money. But how does that digital currency actually translate into money? And is it safe to buy? I have heard of friends of friends who have lost thousands – perhaps you have too. The word Bitcoin also often conjures up thoughts of the dark web and either very high returns or very high risk. Let’s