If you happened to be among the 7,000+ people who convened in Las Vegas this past week for NetSuite’s annual SuiteWorld conference, you got an early look at NetSuite’s new Brainyard resource for benchmarking and performance optimization. While the new site was just launched, it’s chock full of data, tools and how-tos that can help any growth-oriented business get to its goals faster.

If, like many of today’s accounting and finance leaders, you’re looking at modernizing your accounts receivable operations, you probably already realize that committing to and investing in that objective takes some buy-in from other stakeholders. One of the most important and toughest stakeholders is of course your own boss, whether she's a CFO, CEO or another position. Whatever role she occupies.

Invoicing in Xero is a pretty straightforward affair. Over the last year or so the company has been providing rolling updates to its invoicing experience. It’s now a more streamlined part of Xero’s solution that’s meant to help users get straight to the point with billing and collecting.