The Hidden Cost of Manual A/P Processing in Government Finance
Accounts payable rarely gets the spotlight in a budget conversation, but it quietly consumes more staff time than almost any other function in a local government finance office. Invoices arrive by mail, email, and hand delivery. Someone keys them in. Someone routes them for approval, often by walking a paper folder from desk to desk. […]
Why Local Governments Are Still Stuck on Spreadsheets, and What It’s Costing Them
Walk into almost any local government finance office and you will find the same tool doing work it was never meant to do: the spreadsheet. Budget tracking, grant reporting, capital asset lists, reconciliations, even parts of payroll support. Spreadsheets have become the connective tissue holding together systems that do not talk to each other. It […]