Per the IRS, it takes 13 hours to complete a typical 1040. This jumps to 23 hours for the avg 1120 business return. For an individual preparer, this is lost time. For a tax accounting firm, this equates to lost profits. Utilizing RPA, tax firms are eliminating laborious (and error-prone) data entry, all while improving client … Continue Reading
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Finance Use Cases
RPA Use Cases for AR Collections
According to a payment study by Atradius, on average, companies write off 1.5% of their AR as bad debt (that’s $750K for a $50M company!), and 93% of businesses experience late payments. RPA-enabled automated collections can improve these impactful statistics. The collections process is repetitive, rule-based, and time-sensitive. This makes it a prime candidate for … Continue Reading
RPA Use Cases for Bank Reconciliation
Per an E&Y study, 59% of a financial department’s resources are spent managing transaction-intensive processes. And around 95% of this effort is wasted on transactions that already match. RPA can reduce reconciliation effort by 90%+ by allowing your accounting team to focus only on the transactions that don’t match. Deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to … Continue Reading
RPA Use Cases for the Order to Cash Process
Are you an OTC leader or laggard? According to the American Productivity and Quality Center, companies fully leveraging technology and automation will spend $5.11 to process a sales order vs. $40.87 each order for manual sales order processing. On the back-end, per the APQC, the automated company will spend $6 to invoice the customer, and … Continue Reading
RPA Use Cases for GL Management and Payroll Integration
Payroll just got more complicated. Per Payscale’s 2021 State of Remote Work report, 47% of organizations (vs. 18% pre-CV19) say that >25% of their team will work remotely. Multi-state remote work burdens Payroll data management, but RPA is here to help. While some companies utilize an enterprise ERP system with an integrated Payroll module, many … Continue Reading
RPA Use Cases for Invoice Processing
In AP, efficiency is king, and it is here RPA rules. Per the Institute of Finance, an AP deptartment using automation can process 22,500 invoices per FTE/year vs. a manual AP department which maxes out at 2,200 invoices per FTE/year. Time also equates to money. According to Levvel Research, manual processing of an invoice can … Continue Reading