International Accounts Payable Professionals and ?AP Now & Tomorrow? Create Strategic Partnership

Orlando — International Accounts Payable Professionals (IAPP) and Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow, often referred to as AP Now, have announced a strategic partnership that will provide expanded benefits to IAPP members and to AP Now readers. This group includes practitioners in accounts payable and internal auditing, as well as the CFOs and controllers responsible for the payment function.

More than 5,000 members strong, the IAPP provides certification, events, training, and resources such as the bimonthly magazine AP Matters for accounts payable and other finance practitioners. Comparable benefits are now offered to accounts receivable professionals through a brand-new sister organization, International Accounts Receivable Professionals, and its publication AR Matters.

“AP Now’s publisher, Mary Schaeffer, has many years of AP experience, especially in the tax and regulatory realm, and brings a wealth of knowledge into this partnership,” says Thomas M. Bohn, IAPP/IARP CEO and executive director. “Our members will reap the benefits of that knowledge and the resulting expansion of resources available to them.”

Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow is a monthly newsletter for professionals concerned about payment issues. It is widely read by practitioners, controllers, auditors and accounting professionals. The parent organization of AP Now, Crystallus Inc., also offers a free weekly ezine and a newly launched quarterly electronic publication, CFO & Controllers Accounts Payable Management Journal.

“We are thrilled to be working with an organization of the caliber of the IAPP,” says Schaeffer, a nationally recognized accounts payable expert. “This partnership will allow us to strategically add value to our core audience by providing them access to a fine professional association and certification program. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.”

About IAPP and IARP International Accounts Payable Professionals is internationally recognized as the trustworthy guidance-setting association for the accounts payable profession. Serving members throughout the world, IAPP is the AP professional’s global voice, chief advocate, recognized authority, acknowledged leader, and principal educator on all AP operational, regulatory, leadership, tax, control, and fraud-related topics. Together, the IAPP and its sister organization, International Accounts Receivable Professionals, have more than 5,000 members in 70 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and provide training, conferences, knowledge sharing, certification, online resources, AP Matters and AR Matters magazines, and more. For more information, visit www.TheIAPP.org and www.TheIARP.org.

About Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow
Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow is the flagship publication of Crystallus Inc., a boutique training, publishing and consulting firm focused on accounts payable issues. In addition to the Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow newsletter, the organization produces a free weekly ezine, numerous webinars, seminars and other resources to help streamline the accounts payable function. The work of both organizations is directed by Mary Schaeffer, a nationally recognized accounts payable expert and author of over 15 business books published by John Wiley & Sons.