Description:
Now every organization can generate cash recoveries, stop profit leaks, move away from control issues, and work toward process improvements with the tools found in Cost Recovery: Turning Your Accounts Payable Department into a Profit Center. This insightful book provides step-by-step guidance for completing a cost-recovery effort of any company’s spending.
Audit technology expert and Certified Fraud Examiner Richard Lanza explains how to utilize free services offered by cost recovery consultants, as well as how to assess risk based your organizations control issues to identify the most likely areas for recovery and process improvements. This book looks at cost recovery from every angle, with in-depth coverage of areas including telecommunications, utilities, healthcare, advertising, media, freight, tax reduction, project fraud and more.
Filled with illustrative case studies, Cost Recovery: Turning Your Accounts Payable Department into a Profit Center is a time-saving road map revealing:
Why every company should consider cost recovery services
How to overcome obstacles to implementation of cost recovery
The opportunities and risks involved in recovery
How the cost recovery market works and which trends affect it
The recovery technology used by firms to focus their testing efforts
Product Details:
Copyright 2010
978-0-470-32238-3
Hardcover, 343 Pages
John Wiley & Sons
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Benefits of Recovery Services
Chapter 2: Overcoming Obstacles to Getting Recovery Started
Chapter 3: Assessing Opportunities and Risk
Chapter 4: The Overall Cost Recovery Marketplace
Chapter 5: Accounts Payable and Procurement
Chapter 6: Advertising Agency Audits and Media Reviews
Chapter 7: Audit Firm Benchmarking
Chapter 8: Escheatment (Unclaimed Property)
Chapter 9: Frieght Bill Auditing
Chapter 10: Health Benefits Auditing
Chapter 11: Lease Audits
Chapter 12: Order to Cash Reviews
Chapter 13: Payroll Tax Credits
Chapter 14: Proactive Fraud Audits
Chapter 15: Project Fraud Audits
Chapter 16: Real Estate Cost Segregation
Chapter 17: Research and Development Tax Credits
Chapter 18: Strategic Sourcing
Chapter 19: Telecommunications Auditing
Chapter 20: Travel and Entertainment Reviews
Chapter 21: Utility Reviews
Chapter 22: Selecting a Provider
Chapter 23: Technology Used in Recovery Efforts
Chapter 24: Conclusion
Appendix 1: Additional Publications Related to Business Cost Savings
Appendix 2: Accounts Payable
Appendix 3: Records Retention and Right to Audit
Appendix 4: Discussion Paper Continuous Controls Monitoring with ACL AuditExchange 2009 and Scripted Analytics
Appendix 5: Tapping the Strategic Potential of Procurement