In early 2014 alone, the city of Winter Haven, Florida settled a case pertaining to $135,000 in water bill overcharges; Warner Cable News reported the firing of four utility company employees for their involvement in erroneous electric bill charges and The Energy Collective Website reported that a glitch in Austin Texas's utility billing system resulted in 100,000 mistakes on utility bills. These incidents represent just a sampling of numerous utility bill errors. One of the contributing reasons such mistakes continue to occur is the depletion of community and/or company coffers. If fiscal and/or personnel resources become exhausted, fees are determined by an estimation rather than an actual meter reading. Another area affected by covert overcharges concerns workers' compensation insurance premiums. Whenever companies must communicate with various departments and agencies, in this case: human resource personnel, insurance agents, insurance companies, rating bureaus, and injured employees, billing mistakes are more likely to occur. Although most people don't realize it, countless factors must be taken into consideration when formulating corporate bills of any kind. However, the more doesn't necessarily mean the merrier. Actually, these factors merely multiply the probability of billing inaccuracies. Sadly, organizations both large and small almost never notice. How closely do you review your company's utility bills? Have you uncovered any mistakes? Are you qualified to recognize a mistake? Don't feel badly. Even the most scrutinizing CFO's, accountants and accounts payable professionals can fail to detect errors. Why? Because most overcharges are so deeply embedded in a bill and so nebulously defined, they are almost impossible to detect. Thankfully, solutions have emerged in the form of highly trained professionals who continue to successfully retrieve hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds for companies everywhere. These individuals are consummately trained to dissect, analyze and identify overcharges and other errors on every type of utility bill, including: • Telecommunications Audits • Electricity Audits • Gas Audits • Waste Audits • Water Audit • Merchant Processing Audits • Shipping Audits • Workman's Compensation Audits Two additional reasons these audits are popular is because the majority of firms conducting them: 1. Require no physical audit 2. No up-front fees are rnecessary because most times, work is conducted on a contingency-based billing model, meaning companies don't pay anything until cost savings are identified In today's challenging economic climate, no entity can afford indiscriminate money management, especially when it is the result insidious billing computations. That is why engaging the services of a Utility Bill Audit Professional makes good business sense. Edward DuCoin, CEO ORPICAL Group Ed DuCoin is the CEO of ORPICAL Group, known for his success in growing a small company into a thriving organization that was listed as one of the 500 Fastest Growing Companies for three consecutive years by INC. Magazine. http://edwardducoin.com http://www.orpical.com
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