2008 Overview

Payments are undergoing an unprecedented period of change. And the future is electronic. Learn how you can conquer the challenges of implementing electronic payments and play a strategic role in your company's payments future at the 2008 AFP Payments Forum. This unique "how-to" program focuses on the most important payments issues facing corporate financial professionals today. Whether you are dealing with ACH, cards, check imaging or check conversion…managing domestic or global payments…involved with B2B or C2B, you will benefit by exchanging experiences with your peers facing similar issues and hearing about their successes.

The two-day agenda features small roundtable sessions facilitated by corporate practitioners as well as informative, in-depth lectures. Return to your office with practical solutions from e-payments "pioneers"…insights about trends and innovations… and networking contacts you can call on long afterwards.

• AFP Payments Forum Brochure

Join with your colleagues in treasury, A/P and A/R to hear how cross-functional teams can maximize the benefits of e-payments. Register two or more members of your company at the same time and each will receive a 10% discount off the application fee.

Register now for the AFP Payments Forum!

• Register Online
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2008 Program Highlights

Corporate practitioners will facilitate interactive roundtables on timely topics such as:

The exclusive Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort

• Implementing e-payment success stories
• Optimizing your purchasing card program: lessons learned
• Creating ways to use the payments fraud prevention toolbox
• Protecting the security of internal data
• Discovering solutions for sending e-payments remittance data
• Managing T&E expenses: "Don't put your T&E program on auto-pilot"
• Integrating remote deposit with the receivables function
• Upgrading lockbox with imaging and automation
• Navigating the ACH rules: answers to your everyday questions
• Assembling a cross-functional team to build a successful purchasing card program
• Packaging and sell treasury's payments projects to senior management
• Managing consumer payments for cost-saving and processing efficiency
• Gaining a global perspective: bank account set-up and payments

Lectures
Topics Include:

• Check conversion 101: ARC, POP, BOC

• "Ins and Outs" of ACH Rules

• Path of an international wire transfer

• New developments in international payments

Who Should Participate?

• Treasurers
• Assistant Treasurers
• Directors
• Managers
• Analysts
• Controllers
• Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Professionals

Optional Pre-Forum and Post-Forum Seminars

Arrive earlier, leave later, learn more and save money by adding an optional seminar to your registration. Two seminars will be offered to give you the opportunity to delve into these topics: E-Payments: Instruments and Processes and Financial Risk: Identification, Measurement and Management Techniques Seminar.

Gain Continuing Education Credits

	CTP/CCM Recertification Credits The AFP 2008 Payments Forum will be approved for CTP/CCM recertification credits. Credit is earned at the rate of one credit per 50 minutes of treasury/cash management or finance-related session time, including questions and answers.
	CPE Credit The Association for Financial Professionals is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), as a sponsor of continuing education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org

Conference Policy

For more information regarding administrative policies, including submitting a complaint, please contact  AFP at 301.907.2862 or by email at AFP@AFPonline.org.