The IAPP is internationally recognized as the trustworthy guidance-setting association for the accounts payable profession.  Serving members throughout the world, IAPP is the AP professional's global voice, chief advocate, recognized authority, acknowledged leader, and principal educator on all AP operational, regulatory, leadership, tax, control, and fraud-related topics.  This section provides a variety of accounts payable guidance, the IAPP Professional Standards Framework, which includes the Code of Ethics.

Guidance-setting 

By providing authoritative guidance, IAPP sets the bar for accounts payable efficiency, effectivenss, and professionalism.

Standards 

In 2009, IAPP published its first-set of professional standards for the practice of accounts payable.  The framework includes the official Definition of Accounts Payable, the Code of Ethics, and the Standards.  The IAPP is a nonprofit organization of value, integrity, and excellence.  To maintain our integrity and excellence, IAPP has implemented professional standards to ensure that AP professionals:

• Provide the foundational framework to support our creed of "members helping members."
• Provide and support the educational opportunities to enhance the knowledge, professional competency, and career opportunities of our members.
• Establish standards of the accounts payable profession.
• Foster process improvements and best practice information sharing.
• Establish an accounts payable and vendor code of conduct.
  

 Practice Aids

• Briefings -- provides today's AP professionals with concise overviews on a variety of essential subjects.
• Whitepapers -- provided by a broad range of different resources, including various members and service providers.  These papers offer information and related details about a host of technologies and processes associated with AP.
• Policies & Procedures -- provides the basic information that should be included when developing an organized and integrated structure for formalized policies and standard operating procedures within AP.

 

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