Controllers Look to Accounts Payable to Help Weather 2009's Storm

NEWARK, NJ--(Marketwire - January 7, 2009) - CFOs, Controllers and Business Managers now realize there are significant bottom-line savings to be found in accounts payable, savings they need to tap in 2009.

You'll find a precise roadmap to those savings at the 9th Annual Accounts Payable Operations conference (March 11-13, San Antonio), presented by the Institute of Management & Administration (a BNA Company) and Casher Associates.

"This is the year Controllers are more serious than ever about savings," says Andy Dzamba, Editor-in-Chief of Accounts Payable publications at IOMA. "The dire economic forecast is the impetus, the Accounts Payable Managers are the drivers, and the AP Ops conference will be the catalyst."

Aside from the single best networking environment available for AP managers, this year's conference will give a forum to key presenters who have paid the price to implement time-saving, money-saving processes and procedures and are willing to share their experiences.

Among them are:

--  Jennifer Clayton, APM, Sr. Manager AP, SYSCO Corporation will detail
    how SYSCO implemented its new imaging system from the planning phase
    through execution.
--  Pam Miller, APM, Accounts Payable Director, BMHC will share her
    extraordinary insights on how to best manage your AP team even as business
    demands become more challenging.
--  Penny Weller, PhD, CMA, Sr. Director, The Hackett Group will give time-
    and performance-tested tips on how to motivate your staff and get them
    excited about using the newest tools and technologies needed to improve
    your AP department.
--  Jon Casher, APM, President, Casher Associates will help you uncover
    previously undiscovered savings by implementing a contract compliance
    program.
    

And Andy Dzamba, Editor, IOMA will lead a dynamic panel of experts at this year's Town Hall Meeting, where nothing is off limits. To learn more, visit http://www.ioma.com/conferences/1091.html.