Blended learning

Create process documentation for accounts payable accounting

Templates - ready to use in practice

This blended learning is held in German.
The documentation of accounting processes is necessary and useful for various reasons, but it ties up resources in the company. In this training , you will learn how to create commercial process chains in general and you will receive a concrete template for the accounts payable process that you can use for your company. This template covers all relevant accounts payable processes. Each process step is explained in detail. You can quickly and easily adapt the sample processes to your individual workflows and create customized process documentation in no time at all. Optimize your accounts payable process with audit-proof process documentation as part of the GoBD-compliant process documentation. In addition, you will receive detailed digitization and automation tips as well as ICS notes - compiled by a team of experts. Use these to optimize your own processes.
Module 1: training training
4 hours
The accounts payable process - explanation of the sample processes
The accounts payable process - explanation of the sample processes
  • participants are guided through the accounts payable process in the accounting department using clear flow charts.
  • With the help of the adaptable sample processes, participants can document their own processes and learn how to improve them.
Module 2: Webinar
2 hours
Sharing experiences in the group
Sharing experiences in the group
  • Approximately four weeks after the introduction to the process documentation templates, every participant has the opportunity to exchange experiences and ask questions with the expert and other participants in the group

Contents

Sample templates:

  • The sample templates consist of a total of 256 digital and schematic process steps, presented in an easy-to-understand way in Word and PowerPoint.
  • They can be used by both SMEs and large corporations.
  • All processes are pre-formulated. You can work directly with this process description.
  • The adaptable templates are discussed in detail during the training .
  • You will learn how to set up flow charts in a short space of time and create comprehensive process documentation for your accounts payable process. All of this, of course, in compliance with the GoBDs.
  • All templates have been created and checked by a proven team of experienced accountants, auditors and lawyers from practice for practice.

In-depth seminar content Accounts payable:

Internal ordering process

  • Contractual orders.
  • Non-contractual orders.
  • Approval process.
  • Approval from an organizational point of view.
  • Approval from a role perspective.
  • Check cost type and cost center.
  • Business management/technical.
  • Supplier risk assessment, credit information, supplier critical for day-to-day business.

Create master data including important check routines, such as VAT ID, duplicates or critical changes

Invoice receipt

  • Formal check §14 UStG.
  • Find the originator.
  • Content check (prices, quantities, conditions).
  • Invoice release.

Outgoing payments

  • Counting run.
  • Manual transfer.
  • Direct debit mandate.

Monthly final papers

  • Tuning work.
  • Valuation liabilities.
  • Monthly reporting package including important KPIs.

Special topics Outgoing payments

  • Credit card.
  • Travel expenses.
  • Guarantees.
  • Deposits.
  • Factoring.
  • Purchasing associations.
  • Payments on account.
  • Taxes, fees, insurance.
  • Reminders.

Get to know all the content in a four-hour practical seminar. Approximately four weeks later, you will have the opportunity as a group to clarify questions and receive further practical tips in a supplementary exchange of experiences.

Learning environment

Once you have registered, you will find extensive sample templates of the accounts payable processes in your online learning environment, including detailed explanations of the process steps, digitization and automation tips as well as ICS notes that have been developed by a team of experts .

Your benefit

  • You benefit from comprehensive, easy-to-understand, schematic sample process documentation for the accounts payable process. The relevant process steps are formulated and explained in detail.
  • The expert will provide you with personal and practical instructions on how to work with the templates.
  • Extensive tips for automating and digitizing your accounts payable processes make it easier for you to put them into practice.
  • The extensive templates allow you to compare your own processes with the sample processes. This process analysis makes it easier for you to identify areas for action in your own company.
  • After establishing clear process structures, you can implement a process-oriented ICS (internal control system).
  • Through the additional exchange of experiences after approx. 4 weeks, you can obtain feedback and clarify open questions. This enables you to make any further sensible adjustments to your processes or their implementation.

Methods

Explanation of the process documentation and the extensive process descriptions by our expert, Q&A session and discussion among the participants, best practice examples and recommendations for action. In the second part of the event (approx. four weeks later) there will be an exchange of experiences.

Recommended for

Experienced specialists and managers from accounting as well as people who want to promote digitization and automation in accounting as project managers.

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Seminar evaluation for "Creating process documentation for accounts payable"

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4.8
Content comprehensibility:
4.8
Practical relevance:
5
Trainer expertise:
4.8
Participant orientation:
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Method variety:
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