Finance organizations are charged with reducing costs, improving performance, achieving regulatory compliance, increasing visibility and enabling the corporation’s strategic initiatives — all at the same time. The fundamental issue is not whether a company should strive for these goals but how well they can be accomplished. A strategically engineered transformation of processes that achieves these goals — cutting operational costs and minimizing financial risks — obviously requires serious consideration. This white paper examines in detail the relevant issues and benefits of Accounts Payable (AP) transformation as well as recent industry-wide research and best practices around such initiatives.