Accounts Payable Fraud

Preventing accounts payable fraud is no easy task but by using an AP automation software like Yooz, it gets easier. Learn how to spot and stop breaches within your organizations accounts payable department and how Yooz can keep your documents secure on our cloud-based platform.

Accounts Payable Fraud Risks: Prioritizing Risk Management

Why should CFOs make leveraging advanced technologies a priority in their Accounts Payable fraud risks strategies to win the fight against fraud? Because security not only brings a piece of mind for an organization but also a competitive edge by simultaneously streamlining your Accounts Payable process.

Three types of advanced technologies that your business needs to prevent fraud are: digitalization, big data and machine learning. Yooz Accounts Payable automation utilizes all three of these technologies along with artificial intelligence (AI) and many others to fight against fraud in the Accounts Payable process.

Here are more ways Yooz’s advanced technologies help fight fraud:

Frequency Analysis:
- Outstanding amounts versus usage history
- Recognition of potential duplicate invoices and/or payments
RPA (robotics process automation):
- Systemization of internal control rules
Traceability:
- Identification of fraud attempts
- History of who accessed documents
Shape/Metadata Analysis:
- Automatic alerts in case of changes in vendor bank details
- Automatic identification of forged documents (invoice, P.O., etc.)

Advanced technologies are essential to your companies fight against fraud so now is the time to start the internal conversations to get your leadership and team onboard with digitalizing your invoice and payment processes with an Accounts Payable automation solution.

Accounts Payable Fraud Detection for the Purchase-to-Payment Process

Companies worldwide have lost more than $7 billion due to fraud. That's why Accounts Payable Fraud detection is becoming a must for the procurement-to-payment process. Learn more about the types of fraud you need to look out for and the best advanced Accounts Payable Automation solution to detect them.

When utilizing smart technologies of an Accounts Payable automation solution fraud detection will reveal fraudsters in a variety of ways and they are not all monetarily driven:

Financial: Financial impact of fraud can be felt not only when cash is directly impacted but also when it comes to operating income.
Data Theft: Client data files are vital to a commercial company as well as the nature of its business agreements and partnerships. This threat can take two forms: inaccessibility to data and malicious use of corporate data.
HR and Psychological Impact: A breach affects employees psychologically when they feel betrayed by a work colleague can also lead to managers questioning if there was anything they should have done to prevent the fraud from occurring.
Reputation: Falling victim to fraud from a lack of skill in Accounts Payable fraud detection impacts the company’s reputation, from the company’s main commercial partners, namely its clients and suppliers, to its shareholders.

There are three types of fraud in the invoice and payment process that are easy to miss:

Duplicate invoices
Phantom vendors
Missing checks

Yooz leverages a number of advanced technologies to automatically validate and detect fraudulent invoices and documents in the purchase-to-payment process. Yooz will automatically notice and redirect any possible fraudulent invoices for further review before it’s too late.

Here is how the Yooz system works to detect fraud:

Once the invoice is received into the Yooz system it moves securely through the workflows automated steps and stored in our cloud-based platform that has the highest level of security. The original paper invoice can then be shredded.
Only those with login credential can access documents stored in the Cloud. Users are also able to see the document history, who has accessed it, who has approved, and where it is in the workflow.
Permission access can be controlled according to the dollar amount and/or sensitivity of the documents, so only those approved will virtually “touch” the document.
Once the document is in the automated system, it goes all the way through the process electronically, including being exported to the secure financial system (when applicable).

Integrating Yooz Accounts Payable automation software will be your biggest ally in the fight against fraud in your invoice and payment processes.

Safety in Numbers: Why Every Company Needs a Digital Audit Trail

Conducting more business outside of the office and working in virtual teams meant more IT and data security risk and more exposure to fraudsters. That's why a digital audit trail helps lower those risks and preserves continuity for financial records. Those massive financial hits owed to the pandemic and WFH mandates come on top of the already well-known flaws inherent in expense reports.

Companies that intelligently automate their entire purchase-to-pay process see their exception rate drop from one in four to one in ten invoices, and they see instances of outright fraud or duplicate payments go down significantly, as well. What's more, logging every electronic record, relevant click, and keystroke when an invoice or expense report is handled also means a huge drop in staff time spent on looking for documents.

Here is how the AP workflow can detect fraud and be secure:

When an invoice arrives, Yooz captures it regardless of its original format, extracts the relevant data points and securely stores it as an electronic record in the cloud. If the invoice came in on paper, the original can be shredded.
The Yooz platform offers two-way and three-way matching for invoices. First, a document is matched to the PO or other documents on file. Once an invoice is matched, a balance check, a tax amount check (if any), and an expense account check are performed.
Only users with login credentials in an organization or company can access documents stored in the cloud. Authorized users are able to see the record history, including who has accessed it, who has approved it, and where it is in the workflow.
Permission access can be controlled according to the dollar amount and / or sensitivity of the record, so only approved employees will be able to virtually “touch” the document.
Once the record is in the automated system, it becomes part of an efficient and powerful digital invoice workflow. From capture and data extraction through proper routing for approval to finally payment, the goal is to enable straight-through elecrtonic processing that requires little to no human intervention.
In the final step, the transaction and matching document information is exported to and reconciled with the company's financial or ERP system.

How secure is your finance department?

U.S. businesses will lose an average of 5% of their gross revenues to fraud.

In this white paper “Game of Fraud: Return of the CFO” you can learn:

How today’s CFO is going to be effective in leading the fight against fraud by adapting their defenses to face new and more aggressive forms of fraud and fraudsters.
Three things that CFOs should be asking themselves (and answering) about the security of your business’ Accounts Payable process.
Identifying types of fraud and the risks associated with each.
The seven key things finance leaders can do to help mitigate, even prevent, fraud and other types of breaches.

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