Capital Appropriation Requests affect your organization’s spending and budgeting processes. Before being approved, these requests are checked for expenditure type, budgeting constraints and an individual’s authorized spending limit.
Financial professionals at companies worldwide oversee approval processes for:
Capital Appropriation Requests (CAR)
Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) Tracking
Purchase Requisitions (PR)
Purchase Order (PO) Processing
Handling of Accounts Payable (AP)
The Challenges
Tracking users’ spending limits, the required approvals and the status of requests can be very complicated, especially if the requests are on paper. Financial professionals at global organizations have resorted to ad hoc methods, including the use of Excel, to keep track of the approval processes.
If your company’s capital appropriation requests are still paper-based and manual, getting approvals for them can present many challenges, among them:
Misrouted CAPEX'es, leading to delays in approval
Approvers struggling to determine the next step in the process, and worse, what to do if a request is not approved or additional information is requested before approval
Incorrect information in a request, which result in accounting inaccuracies and auditing problems
Bottlenecks caused by approval requests sitting in someone's email or being assigned to someone out of the office
A lack of accountability and reporting
A manual routing turnaround of days, weeks or more
The iMarkup Solution
The solution to these challenges lies in using the iMarkup Server to provide process automation and reporting. The iMarkup Server to can automate all approval processes, provide instant visibility, and ease an approver's workload. Automation provides a consistent method for routing and tracking the flow of your requests.
With the iMarkup Solution, an organization's capital approval processes may benefit from:
Initiators who can track their requests from start to finish
Automated consistent and accurate routing to ensure approvals are obtained for each type of request
A reduced workload for your approvers by using email notifications and online eForms to present information in a concise manner
Dynamic routing of requests based on the initiator’s role, the dollar amount, the type of purchase and the approver's individual spending limits
An archive of all forms, document attachments and electronic signatures that are easy to locate, even years later
100% accuracy of all the information entered on a CAPEX, CAR, PO, etc.
Approvers who do not need to be concerned with where to send a request next, or where to route a rejected request
Unnecessary data input and approvals that are not needed
For more information on how iMarkup Solutions can help you manage and automate your Appropriation Request processes, contact us to schedule a web demo.