Past Blog Posts

Posts from the P-Cards Refocused blog, which began in 2014, are listed and linked below.

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  1. Card Program Metrics: The Madness of 2020

  2. A Path Toward Payment Improvements

  3. Work-from-Home Expenses: What Does Your Policy Say?

  4. The Payment Option Poised for a Growth Spurt

  5. How to Avoid Two Common Professional Mistakes

  6. An Easy Tool for Rating Your P-Card Program

  7. Procure-to-Pay Options for Remote Employees

  8. Remote Working Creates New Dilemma

  9. Sample Questions for a Cardholder Survey

  10. 5 Steps for Conducting a Cardholder Survey

  11. Beware of a Twist on Card Fraud

  12. Trust is Not a Control

  13. Why P-Card Fraud is Now Harder to Spot

  14. Who Pinch Hits for the Card Program Manager/Admin?

  15. Did Your Card Program Meet the Challenge (of the Pandemic Crisis)?

  16. 10 Ways to Prevent Late P-Card Transaction Reconciliation

  17. Sample Questions for a P-Card Quiz

  18. Cancelled Business Travel: The Tracking Nightmare

  19. The 30-Minute Challenge: What Will You Do? Tips for Staying Well

  20. Three Emerging Issues During the Pandemic

  21. What Your Business Continuity Plan Might Be Missing

  22. Tap and Go Technology: A Secure New Way to Pay

  23. Wire Payments Fraud: Humans are Weak Link

  24. Card Appreciation from an AP Perspective

  25. The Last Frontier: New P-Card Programs

  26. Disruption in Risk Management for P-Cards

  27. Top 7 Commercial Card Posts in 2019

  28. Growth Areas for Commercial Cards

  29. Level 3 Data Uncovers Personal Purchases on P-Card

  30. When to Omit an Invoice

  31. The Missing Piece in Your Supplier Communications

  32. How Do You Define Card Program Success?

  33. Overcome 7 Payment Strategy Hurdles

  34. Do You Do a Credit Check on Card Applicants?

  35. A New Fraud Tactic and What You Can Do to Prevent It

  36. Survey Shows Sluggish Card Mandate for T&E Expenses

  37. Clearing the Confusion to Drive Greater Card Usage

  38. Controversial P-Card Spend Due to Lack of Policy

  39. Why Your P-Card Auditing Stance Could Be Risky

  40. The Emerging Trend of Integrated Payables

  41. How to Help Your Card Program Rise to Its Potential

  42. Does the Procurement Team Care About Payments?

  43. The People Part of the P-Card Training Equation

  44. Survey Results Reveal P-Card Control Opportunities

  45. 12 Simple Solutions to Aid P-Card Program Management

  46. A P-Card Separation of Duties Dilemma

  47. Build a Foundation for Successful Audits

  48. Metrics that Turn the P-Card Tables Around

  49. Commercial Card Rebates in the U.S.: A Wild Ride

  50. Are U.S. Card Programs Focused on the Wrong Things?

  51. AP Holds a Winning Card Hand

  52. Top 5 Commercial Card Posts of 2018

  53. Where Do Best Practice P-Card Programs Go Next?

  54. Stop Blaming P-Cards

  55. Do Your Audits Test Employees’ Knowledge?

  56. Why Employee Use of Personal Cards is a Gamble

  57. Fallback Card Fraud Hits Home

  58. Why Your Card Provider is Frustrated

  59. Do You Treat All Cardholders Equally?

  60. When P-Cards are NOT the Best Option: A Real-life Example

  61. Open Up Your Card Program Communication Plan

  62. Is Your P-Card Training 5-Star Worthy?

  63. 4 Reasons Organizations Resist Virtual Cards

  64. Topics Every P-Card P&P Manual Should Include

  65. What Card Transaction Disputes Might Be Telling You

  66. Internal Fraud to Result in Prison Time

  67. Payments to the Card Issuer: Speed Up or Slow Down?

  68. How Well is Your Card Program Aging?

  69. Weathering Common Card Program Storms

  70. The Party’s Over for Two Cardholders Taken into Custody

  71. Get a Clearer View of Interchange

  72. Herding Cats, uh, Cardholders (Cardholder Management)

  73. 8 Questions to Help You Rate Your Card Provider

  74. The Payments Iceberg: Innovation and Realities

  75. Questions to ask interviewers (re: an end-user program manager job).

  76. Internal fraud case serves up a reminder for all.

  77. Top five Commercial Card posts of 2017

  78. Use P-Card metrics to keep a program on target.

  79. Identify your card program priorities.

  80. Two P-Card program management tools.

  81. Inactive cardholders can hinder your game plan.

  82. Virtual Card reconciliation hurdles.

  83. Defend against holiday temptations (and internal fraud).

  84. Is workplace impropriety the elephant in the room?

  85. Three travel policy recommendations...

  86. Getting ePayables/EAP in the door.

  87. Four questions to help ruthlessly cut your presentation.

  88. Extend training by adding a human touch.

  89. A travel expense headache.

  90. Middle market program challenges.

  91. Seven program staffing factors.

  92. Move forward with fleet data.

  93. Keep an eye on your chip card.

  94. Check fraud by an AP supervisor.

  95. Danger signs of card misuse.

  96. Virtual Cards for travel have arrived.

  97. Who audits the program manager/administrator?

  98. Interview questions for a Commercial Card role.

  99. Can you explain your program data?

  100. Interface file creation 101.

  101. Phishing for security weaknesses.

  102. 12 program support responsibilities.

  103. Newsletters can boost communication.

  104. A winning program goal strategy.

  105. U.S. regulatory compliance issues.

  106. Rethinking the audit process.

  107. Two Supreme Court decisions this week.

  108. Who is your executive champion?

  109. Virtual Card acceptance made easy.

  110. Planning for RFP success.

  111. Maximize manager training.

  112. Cybersecurity threats abound.

  113. Why mandate card use for T&E?

  114. Are auditors friends or foes?

  115. Surcharging arguments in Supreme Court.

  116. Three things to celebrate.

  117. 16 tasks for card program fitness.

  118. Preventing panic during an emergency.

  119. A university pilots SET Cards to reduce cash advances.

  120. Succession planning and finding talent.

  121. Cards are king for one city.

  122. External fraud can freeze card use.

  123. Hang on or let go? When you are outvoted.

  124. How ePayables can be a bridge to something better.

  125. Two card program traps to avoid.

  126. Are T&E approvers doing their job?

  127. Breaking news involving surcharging.

  128. A quiz can enhance training.

  129. Give new life to policies and procedures.

  130. Why some technology projects fail.

  131. Actions to increase card payments.

  132. Making Fleet Cards work for you.

  133. Staff members are a wildcard.

  134. Two issues plaguing B2B payments.

  135. Who pays for payments fraud?

  136. Major lawsuit settlement overturned.

  137. Executive card fraud beyond belief.

  138. Are end-users placing a burden on issuers?

  139. Attack fraud through training.

  140. Who is your backup on the job?

  141. Bring more focus to your next RFP.

  142. Does program buy-in seem out of reach?

  143. A biometrics solution for Commercial Cards.

  144. Evolving security for online payments.

  145. One supplier's card acceptance journey.

  146. Turn ideas into a speaking proposal.

  147. Premiering a new rebate idea.

  148. Putting cardholders at ease.

  149. The sweet and sour of B2B payments.

  150. Making a global card program pay off (part two).

  151. Global Commercial Card program advice (part one).

  152. Rate your payments strategy.

  153. The entrance of same day ACH.

  154. Separate yourself from the crowd.

  155. The best unquantifiable goal for 2016.

  156. Smartphone business challenges and trends.

  157. Six myths about tax compliance.

  158. What I learned from Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran.

  159. Finding cardholders when needed.

  160. The value of asking why.

  161. The pursuit of interactive training.

  162. Four principles to adapt your training to adult learners.

  163. Gift card purchases, a prize or problem?

  164. Who is the best card issuer?

  165. Refresh your travel policy with a makeover.

  166. Give your managers a life preserver.

  167. Hair-raising data on checks.

  168. Are we ready for chip cards?

  169. How to present numbers with flair.

  170. Where do rebates rank?

  171. Three program success factors for Canadian company.

  172. Conquering mountains, figuratively and literally.

  173. The magic of Declining Balance Cards.

  174. Felony charges and fraud-fighting tactics.

  175. Has Level III data evolved or dissolved?

  176. Why one bank opted out of Virtual Cards.

  177. Surcharge laws challenged at state level.

  178. Electronic payables insight to save you time.

  179. Rebuilding a controls norm.

  180. Is your T&E policy in tip-top shape?

  181. Make your next conference experience count.

  182. Where does card acceptance litigation take us?

  183. Do misperceptions impede card program growth?

  184. Do not bury your P-Card tax skeletons.

  185. Presentation redesign tips to wake up an audience.

  186. I hereby renew my vows to card acceptance.

  187. Procurement fraud and card misuse reenter the news.

  188. Restacking the chips—pros and cons of EMV options.

  189. Recommit to annual P-Card housekeeping tasks.

  190. Reappraise the value of B2B card payments.

  191. Sharing your knowledge is regifting at its best.

  192. Two key P-Card topics resurface in Dr. Palmer interview.

  193. When reorganization is a good thing for your career.

  194. Your disaster recovery plans deserve to be reassessed.

  195. Four tips for repaving the path to P-Card success.

  196. Recast your ballot: Does BIP or SIP win your vote?

  197. Refortify your cardholder agreement for added control.

  198. EMV in the U.S. gets a push from redrawn liability lines.

  199. Remake yourself into a more engaging trainer.

  200. Rediscover the leader within you.

  201. How to reassure management about your P-Card controls.

  202. Lessons learned from redoing P-Card refresher training.

  203. Re-ignite a spark in your card program.

  204. Reconstructing the crime scene—a case of internal card fraud.

  205. A relabeled fraud triangle targets organizations’ faults.

  206. Impact of the reformed U.S. surcharging rules.

  207. Effectively on-board suppliers to avoid the re-board blues.

  208. Regain a broad perspective of your payment strategy.

  209. In need of compliance reinforcement?

  210. Metrics are worth revisiting.

  211. Rebates rehashed, part 2—maximization tactics.

  212. Rebates rehashed, part 1—the dark side.

  213. Reclaim time for program optimization.

  214. Should you regularly reassign program management?

  215. Re-inject simplicity into your Commercial Card programs.

  216. How to redevelop your process audits.

  217. A move to redefine Commercial Card controls.

  218. Reframing the interchange (“swipe fees”) picture.

  219. Is it time to revitalize your policies and procedures?

  220. The payment card industry reprioritizes. What’s trump?

  221. React smartly to surcharging.

 

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