Tipalti, the leading global finance automation company, today reveals the majority of finance leaders (82%) admit that excessive manual finance processes are hindering their organization's growth plans for the year ahead. Over three-quarters (79%) say that the amount of time they spend on manual data entry has increased by 24% in the last year, now taking an average of 41 minutes to process an individual supplier invoice. More than half (51%) of AP time is spent on manual tasks.