Although they had reached 200 employees and $19 million in expenses, they were still operating the same way that they had when they were just one school. Paper invoices would come in to the schools; the school operations manager would sign off and give them to the finance department. Here, the analyst would key them into the accounting system, then scan the invoices and store them as PDFs in a shared drive. Invoice approvals were done outside the system. The analyst would save all the approved invoices to a folder for Tebeleff to pull a report. He would spend about four hours a week comparing the report to the invoice PDFs. Then he would go into the bill pay system to set up each payment individually. When they were ready, the CEO would go into the bill pay system and compare

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