Course Description
This course is a training guide for the new manager of an accounts payable department. It will help you step into your new role and take a commanding and successful lead. This course will take what you know and enhance it by adding management principles to those practices. Accounts payable is not just processing checks, mailing them and then filing the backup paperwork. To truly manage accounts payable, you must understand all parts of the department including but not limited to customer service, vendor management, check requests and POs.
This course will discuss how to handle invoices; check processing; preventing errors; annual audits; and technology uses in the department. Learn all about the best practices to adapt for your A/P department, PLUS, get expert advise from a well-seasoned disbursement manager with many years of A/P experience.
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs

Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and summarize the Accounts Payable Management job.
- Handle invoices correctly and employ the necessary checks and balances.
- Process checks correctly while employing the necessary checks and balances.
- Prevent errors and common mistakes.
- Provide good customer service, create internal controls, and prepare the department for the annual audit.
- Detect and prevent fraud from vendors and employees.
- Use technology in Accounts Payable to make the job more efficient.
- Identify ways to use the Internet in Accounts Payable.
- Summarize the processes involved in Master Vendor Files.
- Avoid problems caused by discounts and other deductions.
- Know what to do with independent consultants.
- Process 1099s.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Assessment Guide
Assessment | Points |
---|---|
Introduction | 1 points |
Manager Role | 2 points |
Manager | 60 points |
Invoice Process | 1 points |
Steps for an Invoice | 2 points |
Invoices | 100 points |
Steps for Check Processing | 1 points |
Rush Checks | 2 points |
Checks | 100 points |
Prevention | 2 points |
Prevention | 30 points |
Assignment 1 | 2 points |
Exam 5 | 70 points |
Fraud | 90 points |
Technology | 1 points |
Technology | 90 points |
Reimbursement | 2 points |
Lesson 8 Exam | 90 points |
Using the Cloud | 2 points |
Master Vendor File | 2 points |
Master Vendor | 70 points |
Deductions and Discounts | 60 points |
Consultant | 50 points |
1099 and master vendor list | 2 points |
Accounting for What I Have Learned... | 2 points |
Accounting | 100 points |