This research determines the account management collections of purchase order card holders or guarantors and effectiveness different collection strategies employed by retail stores. The objective is to integrate 59.89 percent e-payment systems as a preferred payment method from reflected 58.4 over-the-counter methods that resulted in high risk uncollected accounts commonly known doubtful accoun...

In recent years, advances in digital technology have rapidly permeated various business sectors and functions, leading to the transformation of numerous traditional paper-based accounting processes. Consequently, e-accounting practices such as e-invoicing, e-archiving, e-bookkeeping become increasingly widespread. Although applications offer advantages cost time savings, increased efficiency, r...

Accounts Payable (AP) is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process used by large corporations to compensate vendors on time for goods services received. A comprehensive verification procedure executed before disbursing funds supplier or vendor. After the successful conclusion of these validations, invoice undergoes further processing traversing multiple stages, including vendor identificatio...

This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly important as the provision of health services was decentralized in 1988 and since then municipalities have been given greater responsibilities for the management of fiscal reso...

This paper presents results from a longitudinal study on the use of ICT for B2B-related business processes in large Swiss companies. In an empirical survey, 68 questionnaires were personally collected from procurement heads and subsequently analysed. The study was initiated by industry partners who wanted to gain more detailed knowledge about the maturity of e-procurement in the Swiss market. B...

The digitalization of business processes is a crucial method for cutting down administrative costs, improve productivity in business processes, and achieving process transparency. Since invoices are some of the most important documents exchanged between business partners, it makes sense that invoices be sent and received electronically. There are no formal rules that determine the format of ele...

M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 7 I E E E S O F T W A R E 1 1 3 X ML today routinely helps businesses and governments write applications and do Web-based tasks that were beyond most people’s imaginations back in 1999, when the inklings of an open standard called Universal Business Language first appeared. Crafted by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, UBL provides a ...

Economic effectiveness has become a decisive factor in feasibility studies for IT projects due to deteriorating economic situation. This paper characterises such an assessment on the example of an automated settlement system for a supply chain. The described project was carried out by a financial centre – located in Poland – of an international company operating in the automotive industry. It a...

BACKGROUND Medication errors in chemotherapy are frequent and lead to patient morbidity and mortality, as well as increased rates of re-admission and length of stay, and considerable extra costs. Objective: This study investigated the proposition that computerised chemotherapy ordering reduces the incidence and severity of chemotherapy protocol errors. METHOD A computerised physician order en...

The evolution of network technologies and their reliability on the one hand, and the spread of virtualization techniques on the other hand, have motivated the use of execution and storage resources allocated by distant providers. These resources may progress on demand. Cloud computing deals with such aspects. However, these resources are greedy in energy because they consume huge amounts of ele...