Driven by unprecedented economic conditions and government intervention to help small business, reverse factoring is rapidly becoming the de facto form of payment in Spain.
This is the fourth in the series The World Map of e-invoicing focusing on Asia Pacific. With many aspects of the economies and cultures in Asia and the far East, it is a mistake to make direct comparisons with the West. While the eastern economies…
Copyright has been in the news lots lately. Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s patents, Kodak’s patent fire sale and of course, closer to home, Tradeshift’s Christian Lanng’s attack on OB10 over one of their copyrights. Then there’s SOPA which everyone reading this needs to be concerned…
Last week, Basware announced the acquisition of First Business Post, one of the most important players in the e-invoicing market in Germany. I didn’t see much noise made about this which surprised me. This is big news. It’s big news for three reasons.
It’s been my guilty secret for a few years now. I buy Apple stuff. Why the guilt? Because of Apple’s reputation about their supply practices. The reputation says that Apple products are built in factories in far flung places where working conditions are so poor…
Purchase to pay process, SOX controls, segregation of responsibilities – to a business they can, and are, seen as obstacles to just getting things do. But they are a necessary evil. Without them fraud would be rife. So what are the most common purchase to…
The global economic crisis is bad enough and forcing business to work with their hands tied behind their backs isn’t helping. The failure of the dominant western economies, the US and Europe in particular, to encourage better business processes is testament to their lack of…