The classic hand-sign game rock-paper-scissors is reckoned to date back to the Chinese Han dynasty in the third century. Today, it’s being played in Accounts Payable departments worldwide – but with disastrous outcomes.
Over the centuries, rock-paper-scissors grew in popularity. In England, the game even had its own society, which formed in 1842 and went on to have more than 10,000 active members. Bizarrely, in 2006 the contest was even used by a US judge in Florida to settle a legal dispute.
The game is perfectly weighted: rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, paper beats rock. But in many Accounts Payable (AP) departments across the globe, the balance is all wrong…paper beats everything, every time.
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