Learn the Business of Auditing Telephone Bills and Correcting Billing Errors – Here’s How

Written by Barbara Clements


Orlando, Florida – If you think you are overwhelmed by telephone bills and contracts as a consumer, how do you think Corporations keep track of their phone bills? If you can’t be certain all your telephone calls on your bills are correct, just imagine having tens of thousands of bills paid monthly with out anyone reviewing them or analyzing them! Most Fortune 500 Companies don’t have a dedicated telecom auditor on staff and they rely onrepparttar information they obtain from their carriers. Duringrepparttar 145176 past 14 years we’ve seen only a handful of Corporations with an accurate inventory of all their phone and data lines. Do you think Corporations and mid sized companies have time to check their advertised lines monthly, or even annually? I’ve disclosed several opportunities above, but I think you may still be skeptical so here are further details. Most companies have late fees, but having late fees might mean that an AP Dept. is extremely busy and can't pay allrepparttar 145177 bills prior torepparttar 145178 due date. Some bills may be set aside for review, and others may be held whilerepparttar 145179 AP Rep. is trying to determine a bill's accuracy. An Accounts Payable employee doesn’t haverepparttar 145180 tariff training to identify tariff billing errors (through no fault of their own). Most corporations have a telecom department concentrating on keeping their services online and working properly. These service technicians aren’t billing experts and most don’t understand contract and billing review to determine if they are gettingrepparttar 145181 rates their company should be receiving. Without themrepparttar 145182 telecom equipment failure and service outages would play havoc onrepparttar 145183 entire company. Auditel has found that many large corporations have a telecom service department, but almost none have a telecom billing department.

Having a complete audit is like having a car washed versus havingrepparttar 145184 car totally detailed. Whilerepparttar 145185 corner gas station can washrepparttar 145186 outside of your car, to thoroughly clean itrepparttar 145187 way you would like it done, you either need to do it yourself, or consult a car detail professional. The same is true of an audit. While it may be more convenient to scanrepparttar 145188 “top” ofrepparttar 145189 bills,repparttar 145190 devil is inrepparttar 145191 details. Most companies don’t takerepparttar 145192 extra time to do a complete and total audit, eliminating allrepparttar 145193 wastes. It is time consuming to consolidate bills, and to correct every billing error and tariff, but to do a thorough auditrepparttar 145194 entire process needs to be completed. Every mistake needs to be corrected.

In our experience there have been very few firms with tariff trained auditors reviewingrepparttar 145195 telecom bills on a monthly basis. We recommend that every company have a telecom bill audit to review their telecom services and ensure each vendor’s accuracy. An audit can be primarily based on telephone bills, or expanded to includerepparttar 145196 entire telecom department’s billings, including frame relay, data, and wireless, etc. Don’t forget your contracts need to be reviewed as well. If you have never had a telecom audit performed, or if you thought that all telecom audits were centered on long distance, you need to re-consider a tariff based analysis of all your telecom bills. Every company can benefit from having all their telecom contracts reviewed on an annual basis.

Here is a question for those of you with more than one phone line on your telephone bill: Does your telephone company provide you with an updated inventory of all your phone lines? The detailed information outlining your existing services is given to you by your phone company through a Customer Service Record (CSR). Some of these CSRs look like hieroglyphics. With a large corporation gaining information from allrepparttar 145197 phone companies is time consuming and can be a headache. If you need a detailed inventory which will encompass all of your locations this can be provided by full service auditing firm. Whyrepparttar 145198 need for a detailed inventory? Your company needs to know what fees are associated with each line you own, and pay for monthly. Most importantly your customers need to be able to reach you! How often have you had each line tested for accuracy? Have you ever had your advertised lines tested to verify correct forwarding is in place? Checking where your lines are routing is very important since your customers can't reach you if your lines aren't working, or if your lines are forwarding torepparttar 145199 wrong place.

What Is The "Right" Mortgage For Your Needs?

Written by Janine Monik


Are you thinking of buying a home? If so, then there are many things that you need to research first. For example, do you know what a mortgage is and do you know allrepparttar details of getting a mortgage? The more you know before you get into it,repparttar 144987 easierrepparttar 144988 whole process will be for you.

If you've never owned a home before, you know that securing a mortgage loan can be more nerve wracking than you might realize. After all, just like you would need to prove your expertise to secure a job, you need to prove your credit worthiness to secure a mortgage. The problem is, if you've never owned a home, how can you possibly convince a lender that your credit is good enough to qualify you for a home mortgage loan?

This means that first-time buyers often face higher than standard interest rates and other unfavorable terms on their mortgages such mortgagee insurance. Yet many, many first-time homebuyers or event people with poor credit history enterrepparttar 144989 market each day, so there are lenders out there that are willing to takerepparttar 144990 risk. There are lots of mortgages designed specifically for first-time borrowers, with terms and rates that are flexible and not exorbitant. The trick is finding one of these lenders.

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