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How to structure an accounts payable department by company size and stage

At 30 employees, one person handling QuickBooks worked fine for the accounts payable department. Your auditor asks about the separation of duties, and you're piecing together an answer

How to structure an accounts payable department by company size and stage

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At 30 employees, one person handling QuickBooks worked fine for the accounts payable department.

Your auditor asks about the separation of duties, and you're piecing together an answer

At 150, that same setup becomes a month-end bottleneck.

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At 30 employees, one person handling QuickBooks worked fine for the accounts payable department. Your auditor asks about the separation of duties, and you're piecing together an answer At 150, that same setup becomes a month-end bottleneck.

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At 150, that same setup becomes a month-end bottleneck. Approvals live in Slack threads that nobody can reconstruct.

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