Accounts Payable Processing Fundamentals

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About this course

Learn the essential concepts and foundations of accounts payable processing.

  • 5 lessons
  • 30 min
  • beginner

What you'll learn

  • Define accounts payable and its role as a liability.
  • Explain how accounts payable impacts cash flow and the balance sheet.
  • List and describe the eight steps of the AP process.
  • Explain how the steps interconnect to turn obligations into settled payments.
  • Describe the three-way matching process.
  • Explain how OCR and automated matching improve efficiency.

Finishing the course

  • 20 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
  • Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.