Once the invoice arrives, the accounts payable clerk must ensure that the document is indeed an invoice.

This means that at arrival of the invoice, the same accounts payable clerk will only need to scan the invoice into an automation software.

With an accounting information system, an accounts payable clerk enters the invoice, provided by a vendor, into the system where it is then stored in the database.

When Ms. Bogen was a child, the holidays, even on her mother's limited budget as an accounts payable clerk in a grocery store, were always festive.

His mother is the accounts payable clerk for the American Cancer Society, in San Francisco.

Another customer was Barbara Zinn, 41, an accounts payable clerk at a communications company.

Her mother is an accounts payable clerk at the Glens Falls (N.Y.) Cement Company.

Ms. Gluckin also employed a niece, Debra Rigano, as an accounts payable clerk.

One relative of Ms. Gluckin, a niece who had been an accounts payable clerk in her office for several years, was placed on administrative leave by the board earlier this month.

He was in charge of the agency's entire cash disbursement system, and would present forms he had prepared or approved to the accounts payable clerk.