Controlling costs and ensuring long-term return on payments investments are more critical than ever. Attend the 2009 AFP Payments Forum and discover proven solutions to achieving payments efficiencies that will yield benefits to your entire organization.

Learn how to unlock savings by streamlining processes and tightening controls through e-payments:

• Hear proven success stories and gain practical advice on managing your organization’s payments and receipts process when dealing with suppliers, customers and internal partners.
• Participate in lively exchanges with your corporate peers in interactive roundtables where you can learn how others have solved the problems that you face.
• Attend lectures that explain the basics of ACH rules, international payments, accepting and making card payments, and check imaging.
• Gain insights into all payment methods—ACH, cards, checks and wires, domestic and international.

You will return to your office with innovative ideas and networking contacts that will help you achieve your company’s payments goals long after the forum has ended. Registration is restricted to corporate practitioners.

Engage with your peers in interactive roundtables facilitated by corporate practitioners on topics that include:

• Accounts Receivable Automation Adds Value
• Accounts Payable Consolidation: A Migration Success Story
• Realizing the Real-World Benefits of Ghost Cards
• Mission Possible – Successful Outsourcing of the Payables Process
• Migrating High-Cost Consumer Payments to Lower Cost Alternatives
• Getting the Most Out of Your Purchasing Card Program
• Realizing Efficiencies in the Purchase-to-Pay Cycle
• Fighting Payments Fraud: How Resourceful Corporates Can Outsmart Clever Criminals
• Cross-Border Considerations: Making Payments to Asia
• Disaster Recovery “Do’s and Don’t”
• Selling Customers on Recurring Direct Debits
• Protecting Customer Account Data from Fraud

Lectures include:

• The Ins and Outs of ACH Rules
• International Payments 101
• Understanding the Law to Help Shield Against Liability
• Accepting Card Payments: Understanding the Process, Managing the Costs
• What’s New in the Check World?
• Using Forensic Data to Uncover Payments Fraud

Corporate treasury and finance practitioners involved in payments strategy or payments operations including:

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

Anheuser-Busch Companies Expedia, Inc. PepsiCo, Inc. Sony Electronics, Inc. The Walt Disney Company U.S. Postal Service IBM Corporation

University of Cincinnati Sprint Nextel Jockey International, Inc. Target Corporation Atlanta Housing Authority Kimberly-Clark Corporation H.J. Heinz Co.

We are pleased to announce that your forum registration allows you full access to the AFP Retail Treasury Forum that will also be held at the Hilton New York. These two unique events offer a breadth of content and access to a wide range of products and services. You are invited to explore the education sessions being offered at both forums and to take advantage of the opportunity to expand networking contacts.

Arrive earlier, learn more and save money by adding an optional seminar to your registration: Cash Flow Forecasting Techniques.

	CTP/CCM Recertification Credits The Payments Forum is approved for 23 Total CTP/CCM re-certification credits: Payments Forum = 12 CTP/CCM re-certification credits Cash Flow Forecasting Pre-Forum Seminar = 11 CTP/CCM re-certification 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

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