“How many times did you do this in October?” Four. “How many people were involved in doing that?” At least eight unique individuals. “Like bookkeepers or AP clerks?” Half were highly paid professionals. Waste of time and talent! Now avoidable! Yay!
@patio11
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Automation Reduces Administrative Delays Through State Machine Management
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“Why does that matter?” Because it lets computers do the inglorious-and-unworthy work of administering a state machine rather than having multiple delays introduced by various parties having multiple people involved in reading email, checking bank records, etc.
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Manifold Uses AI for Conference Expense Reimbursement Automation
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In case you’re wondering, it was the Manifold folks (making really good operational use of it for batching reimbursements of speaker travel expenses for their conference).
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US Regulatory Burden on Business: Political and Tax Compliance Justification
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Like most political questions, "Why does the United States impose a multibillion dollar paperwork burden on all productive enterprise?" comes down to "The American people, through their elected representatives, believe such a burden is just, to prove taxes are paid as owed."
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Automation as Productivity Tax: Eliminating Redundant Human Labor Requirements
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"Could we simply NOT require businesses to use tiny bits of overpaid human labor to redundantly capture information which is substantially known to both parties in a particular form, representing a productivity tax across capitalism?" That's a political question.
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Corporate Financial Structures and Inter-Company Payment Relationships
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(There exist an almost infinite diversity of corporate structures and contractualized financial relationships in the world, and within that infinite diversity, some percentage of payments made by or on behalf of X Inc will come from Y Inc's bank account.)
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US Banking W-9 Inefficiency: Information Already Available But Not Shared
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(This is one of those "obvious but accepted inefficiencies in capitalism" because a banked business in the United States has already told the bank enough to fill out a W-9 in almost all cases but for boring reasons that info is not sent with payments.)
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Money Movement: Technical Ease vs Regulatory Complexity
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This thread brought to you by the many years in the payments field which suggest that actually moving money around is frequently easy and navigating the corporate/social/legal/tax implications of money movement is often the harder part.
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Enterprise Vendor Management Systems vs Simpler Economic Alternatives
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This is so, so much nicer than the analogous process that happens in most vendor management (TM) systems. (The Enterprise has reason to use those, sadly, but thankfully much of the economy does not need to.)
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Copyright Disclaimers as Empty Rituals in Digital Culture
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In some places it moves from a ritual to something akin to a tick, like the YouTubeism “I don’t intend copyright.” (when posting something which is definitely copyrighted, by someone else)