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More Wordle: Quordle, Dordle and Octordle

More Wordle Opportunities: Quordle, Dordle and Octordle looks at some of the new wordle alternatives, games based on #Wordle. #Dordle, #Quordle, and Octordle are all based on Wordle but clearly, are more challenging.

The increase in searches for 5 letter words for wordle is just one example of how popular the game is. When it comes to Wordle, how to play is a requirement. You need to know how to play it if you wish to play Quordle, Dordle or Octordle. But, it’s not hard.

The Wordle game is online and free, as are Quordle, Dordle and Octordle. While many Win Wordle each day, the same cannot be said of Quordle, Dordle and Octordle, although there are no stats on those games. The Wordle expert tips may not apply to these games as there are different considerations.

Yet, Wordle tips and strategies are a good place to start. Whether you are looking for Quordle hints or Dordle hints, wordle knowledge comes in handy. Dordle, Quordle, and Octordle will definitely become more popular should the NY Times decide to put Wordle behind the pay wall. It is important to understand Worlde game strategy and How to Wordle before trying to figure out how to Quordle and or how to Dordle. There are special Dordle tips and Quordle tips for those who wish to master those games. Dordle strategy tips and  Quordle strategy tips are more complex than those for Wordle, although to be fair, Wordle will always be our favorite.

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Information about Mary Schaeffer’s Wordle book:
https://www.amazon.com/ /dp/B09R65XH3Q/ref=sr_1_13?crid=54RF3RYEJQ46

Link to Wordle Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtL6rWSXZ-HefxYm4ymJ0RSWKFC_c9Lys

Link to Dordle: zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Link to Quordle: https://www.quordle.com/#/

Link to Octordle: https://octordle.com/

Duplicate Payments: An Analytical Approach

Duplicate Payments: An Analytical Approach addresses the scourge of Duplicate Payments. It provides tips on avoiding duplicate payments because vendors returning duplicate payments, as professionals who work in #accountspayable and #accounting are painfully aware.

A duplicate payment audit, whether completed by the company itself or a third party is a great way to identify duplicate payments and fraud. That’s why so many have routines to audit for duplicate payments. As those who work in accounts payable are painfully aware, duplicate and erroneous payments are rarely returned by the supplier. Vendors returning duplicate payments are the rarity rather than the norm. It’s one of the many reasons we make such a big deal about duplicate invoices. Alas, they lead to duplicate payments.

The plague of duplicate payments continues. Best practice organizations know they need to take action to ensure this money isn’t gone forever. Stick around while we discuss 5 tactics you can take to ensure your suppliers don’t hold onto your hard-earned profits.

Thinking that all vendors will return duplicate payments is a common misconception some folks have about the accounts payable function

Duplicate Payments: An Analytical Approach discusses the continuing headache companies endure when trying to identify and recover Duplicate Payments. It includes advice on avoiding duplicate payments in the first place because suppliers rarely return duplicate payments, as professionals who work in accounts payable and accounting are excruciatingly aware.

Link to 8 Accounting Misconceptions about Accounts Payable https://youtu.be/1Cp_vfrkSSw

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Cleansing the Master Vendor File: 5 Pointers

Cleansing the master vendor file 5 pointers focuses on this often-overlooked vendor file task. Cleansing the vendor file is never fun. The vendor file in accounts payable is sometimes called the master vendor file or the vendor master file. Whether you call it the master vendor file or the vendor master file or the accounts payable vendor file, cleansing master vendor file is an important task. #Vendorfile responsibilities in #accountspayable are part of the #accounting function.

Regardless of where responsibility for master vendor file lies, cleansing the vendor file on a regular basis is part of a best practice accounts payable or purchasing function. Does master vendor file belong in accounts payable or purchasing is a frequent question. The answer is that as long as master vendor file best practices on a regular basis, it doesn’t
really matter. Best practices in accounts payable by their very nature include best vendor file practices.

Cleansing the master vendor file is a tedious task that can be improved by following the 5 pointers discussed in this short piece. It focuses on the often-overlooked task of Cleansing the vendor file which is never enjoyable. The vendor file in accounts payable is called many different things, sometimes the master vendor file or and sometimes the vendor master file. Regardless of what you call it cleansing master vendor file is an important task.

This is episode 144 of the AP Now podcast

Link to Episode 77: Using Excel to Find Duplicate Vendors in Master Vendor File https://youtu.be/K7GDuB8hJx8

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Wordle: How to Play to Win [5 Strategies]

Wordle: How to Play to Win [5 Strategies]

It’s not enough to learn about Wordle how to play, you need to do it strategically. That’s why we discuss 5 strategies to use when discussing Wordle: How to Play to Win! It is Wordle game online free that has people of all ages clamoring for more they not only want to play the Wordle game, they want to Win #Wordle. #WordleStrategy to #WinWordle

In this clip, we have Wordle expert tips that include the wordle tips and strategies used as a worlde game expert strategy. These Wordle expert insights include not only the Wordle game instructions but also Worlde game strategy. The speaker uses them herself for an impressive Wordle streak. They are also described in the book, Wordle: How to Play, The Rules and Expert Insights.

The Wordle tricks included well help you learn How to Wordle.  The Wordle tips include wordle strategy tips so you can improve your odds at winning Wordle. They also include some wordle strategy words so when you Wordle play online you won’t be limited to Wordle guesses but you’ll know how to play wordle to win because let’s face it, how to win at wordle is why you are watching and/or listening to this.

You probably want not only to learn about Wordle how to play, you want to do it strategically, using the 5 strategies  we discuss in Wordle: How to Play to Win! The Wordle game is free and has people of all ages clamoring for more. They not only want to play the Wordle game, they want to Win Wordle.

Link to The Book: Wordle: The Rules, Strategy and Expert Tips
https://www.ap-now.com/snip/111.htm

 

Link to the Wordle Play List:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtL6rWSXZ-HefxYm4ymJ0RSWKFC_c9Lys

Link to Wordle: Best Starting Word Revisited

https://youtu.be/4FY28GWPddI

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13 Business Email Tips and Tricks | Avoid Career Disaster

This video focuses on 13 Business Email Tips and Tricks to help listeners Avoid Career Disaster. If you want to write better business emails and avoid career disaster, incorporate these practices into your business email writing. iThe business email trips and tricks are basically common sense often ignored when creating business email. The 13 Business Email Tips and Tricks are essential for those who wish to avoid career disaster.

Business Email Tips and Tricks help keep email conversations on track. These email writing tips for accounting are also email writing tips for accounts payable professionals and for that matter are email writing tips for professionals. If you wish to avoid career disaster, these tips for writing business emails will help, especially when it comes to business email emojis. Use of an emoji in a business email is a dicey issue.

Business email can be your friend or your enemy. Use properly it can improve your productivity and career prospects. But, alas, one small misstep and you can throw all that down the drain. Let’s look at 13 of these often-overlooked missteps, so you don’t fall into any traps. Stick around until the end when we review a few that have stymied more than a few careers.

Link to 3 Big Fears that Can Ruin Your Accounting Career: https://youtu.be/lE7SPjN2wiY

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Sneak Peak: Global Virtual AP Summit

This is a sneak peek at the first-ever Global Virtual AP Summit for those who work in, manage or have responsibility for the accounts payable function. This overview is conducted by Jamie Radford, CEO AP Association, a global organization headquartered in the UK and Mary Schaeffer, Founder AP Now, a US-based organization focused on best practice issues impacting the accounts payable and payment functions. This is the session for all #accounting and #accountspayable professionals. #GlobalAP

The co-hosts have worked together for several years and decided to put this event together after discovering that accounts payable issues are largely the same regardless of country. Everyone continually deals with fraud, invoice processing headaches, concerns about career advancement, technology, analytics, etc. On both sides of the pond, accounts payable and payment professionals face real concerns about how to implement a digital payment program, if and when their organizations decide to take that approach. And many more than you might imagine are.

Traditional accounts payable issues, including best accounts payable practices, strong internal controls, metrics and benchmarking, fraud protection, career advancement, invoice handling, avoiding duplicate payments and data analytics and more, will be addressed during this two-day online event, starting at 11:30 am, regardless of location. Ahh, the beauties of technology.

At a very reasonable $35 per person, companies on both sides of the pond are registering their entire accounts payable staffs.

Additional details and registration at: https://www.ap-now.com/public/Global-Accounts-Payable-Virtual-Summit.cfm

Host: Mary Schaeffer (www.ap-now.com)
Host: Jamie Radford (https://ap-association.com/)

Wordle Best Starting Word Revisited [How to Win More]

Wordle is sweeping the Internet. Wordle: Best Starting Word Revisited will help you when selecting the best starting word for wordle if you want to win more. If you want to know how to play the wordle word game, how to win at wordle, you need to be able to select the best starting word.

Wordle game instructions start with a blank screen, so it helps to have strategically pick that first word rather than randomly selecting any five-letter word. Wordle and accounts payable often go together. The #wordle beginning word is critical when it comes to success in playing the game. Use the correct first word and you have a shot at occasionally winning in two rounds. #wordlestrategy #wordlestartingword

Wordle rules limit you to six chances to guess the five-letter word. It may seem impossible but many are doing it in even fewer guesses. The wordle Best starting word revisited helps you select the wordle best starting word.

The best starting word for wordle depends upon your strategy. There are several and the wordle starting word for each is examined in this discussion. The best wordle starter is sometimes not what you’d expect.

The best wordle words start with the best wordle start starting word. The best wordle start word should be part of your best wordle strategy. The wordle best beginning word takes some thought. The beginning strategy is selecting the wordle best first word. That is the first step in learning how to wordle. The wordle best starting word to win more is often not what you’d expect. Plus the wordle strategy to win more is not the same as the wordle strategy to win faster. Also, there is really no wordle strategy to win every game. But the wordle best first word to win more is a step in that direction and is one of our wordle first word tips.

Link to The Book: Wordle: The Rules, Strategy and Expert Tips
https://www.ap-now.com/snip/111.htm

 

Link to the Wordle Play List:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtL6rWSXZ-HefxYm4ymJ0RSWKFC_c9Lys

Link to Wordle: Picking the Best First Word
https://youtu.be/BGAPtxljHqY

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5 New Accounts Payable Best Practices | Avoid Trouble

Implement these 5 New Accounts Payable Best Practices to Avoid Trouble in your #accountspayable operations. These 5 New Accounts Payable #BestPractices are critical for all #accounting functions. The accounts payable best practices purchasing, or rather the working relationship between the two. Accounts payable best practices are the foundation for any cost-efficient, regulatory-compliant and fraud-resistant operations.

These accounts payable best practices revolve around the coding of invoices, new fraud protection protocols and more. Invoice coding may seem like an innocuous task, but done incorrectly, as it often is, leads to headaches not only for accounts payable but also accounting.

This is Accounts Payable Sound Bite #76

Many organizations ignore OFAC requirements and end up in hot water when they inadvertently pay someone on the SDN list. The new best practice discussed will help you avoid that nightmare. While most best practice organizations are currently using IRS TIN Matching, there is a new change in when to TIN match. The COVID crisis shined a light on the issue of remote work expense reimbursement policy, something that was a minor issue at most organizations. This has changed as have the best practices around how to receive invoices. Finally, new frauds focused on accounts payable are the range requiring organizations to up their game when it comes to fraud protection, relying now on techniques that could be more aptly described as fraud protection advanced.

Link to Why Best Practice Matter AP Sound Bite #15:
https://youtu.be/SJSme3ZcvKs

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More Accounts Payable Headaches No One Talks about [Accounting Alert]

More Accounts Payable Headaches No One Talks about [Accounting Alert] takes a look at some of the more prominent problems as told to us by AP professionals. These accounts payable headaches are usually overlooked by the accounting staff but add hours to the workload of the accounts payable staff. That’s why I wanted to call this video, Accounting Alert but was talked out of it. However, these #accountpayable headaches need to be recognized by the #accounting staff and include issues with the purchasing staff and often focus on #invoices.

The last issue is a real doozy and it costs your organization big time, if it happens on your watch. The problems revolve around purchasing and suppliers sometimes playing games with the facts. Sometimes it is procurement and other times it’s the suppliers.

These accounts payable problems revolve around a number of issues including, but not limited to, expense reports, invoices, suppliers, incorrect coding done purposefully, incorrect coding by accident, dealing with purchasing, discrepant invoices, payments, rush payments and accounts payable automation.

There’s a reason accounts payable professionals sometimes talk about training suppliers. It helps avoid some of the headaches discussed in this video.

Link to 127 Best Practices in Accounts Payable (book)
https://www.amazon.com/127-Best-Practices-Accounts-Payable/dp/1735100021/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1643998293&sr=8-2

Link to Accounts Payable Headaches No One Talks about [Accounting Alert] https://youtu.be/FDbIf2tHtls

Link to What You Need to Know to Work in AP
https://youtu.be/UGFaUkiNPP0

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Host: Mary Schaeffer, founder AP Now (www.ap-now.com)

Wordle: Game Strategy when Stuck

Everyone needs a Wordle game strategy when stuck. A #Wordle strategy when you are stuck can be quite simple. These wordle tips when stuck should be part of your #Wordlestrategy, part of the Wordle the rules you follow to win the round.

Do you get stuck occasionally, or even more than occasionally when trying to work a Wordle puzzle? I’ve got 4 simple tips that will help you smash through that hurdle. Now, let me make something clear. When I play Wordle, it’s me against the computer. I don’t rely on doing a google search or checking note or anything like that. It’s just me and the computer.

Sometimes I’ll hit a wall. It’s really infuriating when I have 4 of the letters and I still can’t figure it out. But I have a few tricks up my sleeve, so let me share … and remember, no doing a quick google search etc.

Link to The Book: Wordle: The Rules, Strategy and Expert Tips
https://www.ap-now.com/snip/111.htm

 

Link to the Wordle Play List:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtL6rWSXZ-HefxYm4ymJ0RSWKFC_c9Lys

Link to Wordle: Picking the Best First Word
https://youtu.be/BGAPtxljHqY

Link to Avoiding Common Wordle Mistakes
https://youtu.be/0a5nwui7h6w

 

Host: Mary Schaeffer (www.ap-now.com)