Contact Information: For More Information Contact: Chad Giron DBCPR for Approva +1.571.216.4894 approva@dbcpr.com
Approva to Present 14th Annual North American Shared Services & Outsourcing Week Conference
Panel Session to Focus on Achieving Operating Efficiencies in Accounts Payable
| Source: Approva
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - March 9, 2010) - Approva® Corporation (http://www.approva.net),
the leader in continuous controls monitoring (CCM) and audit automation
software, today announced it will participate in a panel discussion about
how organizations can achieve operating efficiencies in accounts payable
through automation at the 14th Annual North American Shared Services &
Outsourcing Week Conference.
During the conference's Process Transformation track on Wednesday, March
24th, Approva will participate on a panel discussion that addresses how
companies can determine the best evaluation method for deciding on the
right e-invoicing/e-pay solutions and also establish key controls and
metrics for AP automation.
The panel also features the participation and insights of Patty Ward,
Assistant Controller, Petco; Kimberly Garrison, Director, Accounting
Systems, Petco; Ken Baker, Director of Finance, Universal Orlando and Simon
Lynch, Executive Manager Research Support Services, CSIRO.
The session will also feature a presentation from Frank Wisink, Head of
U.S. Shared Accounting Service Center with ABB, who will address how
defining a strategy to establish internal AP controls can contribute to a
reduction in costs in excess of 20%.
Held March 22-25 at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, Orlando,
Florida, SSON's 14th Annual North American Shared Services Week is the
largest annual gathering of Shared Services professionals in the world. The
multi-tracked event is designed to provide executives from start-ups,
intermediate and mature shared services with everything they need to know
to achieve excellence in shared services. The conference features keynotes,
speakers drawn from industry leaders, workshops, master-classes, site-tours
and the shared service excellence awards.
About Approva
Approva® Corporation is the industry-leading provider of continuous
controls monitoring software and is the industry standard at Big-4 audit
firms. We enable business, finance, IT and audit professionals to identify,
manage and prevent business exceptions in order to reduce compliance risk,
increase operational efficiency and prevent inappropriate payments. Global
companies such as Bayer, DirecTV, Discovery Communications, First
Advantage, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney and T-Mobile rely on Approva to
deliver actionable and auditable intelligence of control breakdowns across
their business systems, processes and transactions. Approva has certified
integrations with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM and SAP to provide a
holistic Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) solution.
For more information, visit http://www.approva.net or call +1-703-956-8300.