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One week. 3 sessions. Zero fluff. BILL Controller Appreciation Week ‘26 is almost here! 🚀 https://ow.ly/BlC550ZAHOo #ControllerAppreciationWeek

Real sports. Real competition. Real achievements. 🏅 Special Olympics Utah runs year-round training and competition across Utah and the Navajo Nation, and their Athlete Leadership program takes it further, training athletes themselves to become health messengers, team leaders, and spokespeople in their own communities. In their words: “Attention to disabilities fades away. Instead, we see our athletes' talents and abilities, and applaud them for all that they can do.” In 2025 alone, they provided more than 1,200 free health screenings across Utah and the Navajo Nation. We’re proud to support the work of BILL customer Special Olympics Utah. Learn more about their mission here: https://ow.ly/7ujf50Zz7XJ

The biggest fraud risk in accounts payable often comes down to one gap: the same person who sets up a vendor can also approve their payment. When one person can create a vendor, approve the invoice, and execute the payment, there is no second set of eyes to catch a fraudulent change. 👀 BILL customer and top accounting firm Withum outlines eight steps finance teams are using to close that gap, starting with separating those responsibilities and verifying every vendor bank detail change independently. This is a great read for anyone managing AP: https://ow.ly/CfhA50Zz7Ni

Los Angeles Education Partnership has spent over 40 years working with families, schools, and communities across Metro LA, Inglewood, Hawthorne, and Pomona, starting as early as the prenatal stage and staying with students all the way through high school graduation. Their vision is clear: "We envision a world where empowered learning communities foster access and liberation for all." Chronic absenteeism at one partner elementary school dropped from 40% to 19% in three years. We’re proud to support the work of this BILL customer. Learn more about their mission here: https://ow.ly/KE8j50Zz7Ut

Today I'm breaking down the anatomy of accounts payable. Every way your company sends money: wires, checks, ACH, and credit cards. What each one actually is, what it costs, when to use it, and where each one can burn you. All in plain English, with the full breakdown in the infographic below. First, what actually happens when you pay a vendor. A wire moves money bank to bank the same day, and once it lands, it's landed. A check is a piece of paper asking your bank to pay whoever's named on it, eventually. ACH pushes money bank to bank in a day or three, in batches, for pennies. And a credit card means the vendor gets paid now while you pay later. Now, here's how I choose between them with my clients. Credit cards first, whenever a vendor takes them. The float extends your runway and the cashback is FREE money. ACH for your regular domestic vendors. Cheap, reliable, boring in the best way. Wires only when it's urgent or international. At $25 to $50 per wire, those fees stack up fast. And checks... it's 2026. But sometimes a wire is the only option. And two things about wires should scare you a little. First: the account number is what controls where your money lands. Banks don't have to check whether the name matches. So a single wrong digit sends the money to whoever owns that account. Second: once a wire settles, it's FINAL. Recalling one is a polite request that banks are free to ignore. And on international wires, intermediary banks each take a bite along the way, so your vendor can receive less than you sent. Checks have their own dark detail. The bottom of every business check shows your routing number and your bank account number. Every check you mail hands BOTH numbers to a stranger. And that's before check washing. Steal the envelope, erase the ink, rewrite the check. And still: 63% of organizations got hit by check fraud in 2024, yet 91% of us keep using checks (AFP). At my clients, this is exactly where AP time goes to die. Someone triple checking a SWIFT code from an email. Someone mailing a check and just... hoping. That grind is why I lean on BILL for payments. Vendors in the BILL network enter their own bank details, masked from you, so you're never typing a routing number or SWIFT code off an email. When a vendor wants a paper check, BILL prints it and mails it for you, and your account number stays OFF the check. International payments reach 130+ countries, and in local currency there's no wire fee and no intermediary banks taking bites. And the scale here is wild: BILL moves payment volume equal to roughly 1% of US GDP. So next time you hit send, you'll know what that wire form is really asking, and what every check you mail is handing out. Check out BILL here: https://lnkd.in/dQT7GTrW This post is sponsored by BILL.

BILL CEO & Founder René Lacerte has built something great: a network that moves ~1% of the U.S. GDP. 👑 In a new profile from Open Source CEO, René talks about his family roots (four generations of accountants!) and why BILL builds for Main Street. Read the full story: https://ow.ly/Bo3150ZxO0P

A child's cancer diagnosis comes with costs far beyond the hospital bill. The Tyler Robinson Foundation has spent more than a decade covering the costs that come with a pediatric cancer diagnosis but rarely get talked about: housing, travel, and childcare, for families across the US and Canada. In their words: "We ensure families feel seen, heard, and empowered every step of the way." Since 2014, they've raised and distributed millions of dollars to thousands of families across the US and Canada. We’re proud to support the work of our customers and the Tyler Robinson Foundation is no exception.

BILL Travel cuts travel workflow time by more than 85% and reduces the number of manual steps by nearly 80%. Small business teams used to spend hours planning trips and manually reconciling expense reports. BILL Travel replaces that with policy-aware booking, rewards through the BILL Spend & Expense Card, and an AI engine that automatically matches transactions on the back end. Less time managing travel. More time running the business. ⚡ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/er6jwk4H

Managing 200 entities used to mean 200 different logins. Now it means one inbox. ☝️ Swipe to see what our customers are saying about BILL's Multi-Entity accounts, and see it in action: https://ow.ly/fynE50ZwQhi Featuring: Cristine Remington, AdvicePeriod | Gretchen Lucas, Baker Tilly | Kayla Vankirk, Eide Bailly

🤩 Tomorrow, we're kicking off a new content series with a conversation about the new client standard for accounting firms: what today's clients are actually measuring, and what it takes for firms to lead in an AI-powered marketplace. If you're an accounting firm leader who wants to stop reacting to change and start getting ahead of it, this one is for you. It's: ✅ Free to attend ✅ Earn 1 CPE credit ✅ Part of a 6-week content series One registration gets you into all three sessions: https://ow.ly/shSL50ZwnVV Featuring: Elinor Litwack, CPA | CPA, CAS Partner, GRF CPAs & Advisors Dean Quiambao, | Partner, Technology Industry and Northern California Market Leader, Armanino
 Benjamin Pincus | Head of Partner Management, Rillet