Cost Recovery - by Richard B Lanza Hardcover

Book Synopsis

• Cost Recovery: Turning Your Accounts Payable Department into a Profit Center shows how to identify a company's hidden financial assets.
• It provides tools to assist organizations generate cash recoveries, stop profit leaks, move away from control issues, and work towards process improvements.
• The book shows how to incorporate profit recovery technology, and how to pair a company with a recovery expert best suited to the company's needs to achieve bottom line results.
• The book discusses how to utilize free services offered by cost recovery consultants, using of top money-saving proves improvements, and how to create a plan to maximize recovering technology.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Cost Recovery

"Is your company leaking cash without even knowing it? Lanza's easy-to-read book gives practical points on how to increase profits with little or no added cost. This is the corporate equivalent of finding money on the sidewalk; just reach down and pick it up!"
--Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, founder and Chairman, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

"Rich pours a great deal of his extensive knowledge into this guide. It is an encyclopedic approach to the hows and whys of cost recovery services. Not only does the reader learn about the basic mechanics of how cost recovery works, but also has access to numerous case studies showing how it works in key areas such as payables, advertising, health benefits, leasing, and telecommunications. The guide may prove to be the masterwork in this field."
--Steven M. Bragg, CFO, Xedar Corporation

"An easy action reference tool on how reduced disbursements can increase income significantly more than an equivalent rise in sales. Your ROI on this book will exceed any other investment!"
--David H. Margulies, former Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, responsible for Controller's Shared Services

"In an economy where revenue streams are constricted, using Cost Recovery techniques to find money or save money seems like an obvious strategy, but it's perceived as a daunting task for most organizations. Rich Lanza's Cost Recovery guide provides a step-by-step process that's feasible to implement and easy to read."
--Jacqueline A. Breslauer, SVP Corporate Audit, The CIT Group Inc.

"Rich Lanza, the 'Data Magician, ' has elevated the art of data recovery audit and analysis to the next level. His passion for applying data analytics to the workplace has defined him as a pioneer in the area of cost recovery. I commend Rich for his thinking outside the box that has pushed organizations to review their approach to data recovery and cost control with the result of saving millions of dollars!"
--Jim Kaplan, CIA, CFE, President/CEO, AuditNet.org, The Global Resource for Auditors

Review Quotes

"Now every organization can generate cash recoveries, stop profit leaks, move away from control issues, and work toward process improvements with the tools found in Cost Recovery. Authoritatively showing how to incorporate profit recovery technology to achieve stellar-bottom-line results, this insightful and highly readable book provides step-by-step guidance for completing a cost recovery effort of any company's spending." (AccountingWEB.com, February 8, 2010)

"Mr. Lanza has authored an excellent how-to book for auditing your accounts payable functions to determine how you might recover costs for your company...it is logically organized, clearly written and meant to be a work guide. This book should be on every financial manager, controller and CFO's desk." (Executive Leader Coach, December 2009)

About the Author

Richard B. Lanza, CPA, CFE, PMP, is the President of Cash Recovery Partners, LLC, the author of twelve publications and, over 100 articles for major audit and accounting publications. With nearly two decades of experience in audit technology and recovery auditing, he has become a leading authority in these areas. He also provides training courses in audit software and recovery, including forty-three speaking engagements in the last eighteen months. He has consulted on how to save money through the use of technology and recovery auditing for companies ranging in size from $30 million to $30 billion.