Fraud Prevention for AP and AR

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Fraud is an ever present threat for AP and AR practitioners. The pages in this section will help you take appropriate steps to prevent fraud - or, understand what to do if you think you are the victim.

Alan Wenk, corporate accounts payable manager at the Performance Contracting Group in Lenexa, Kansas, believes that AP professionals can sometimes lose sight of the “whys and wherefores”

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Alan Wenk, corporate accounts payable manager at the Performance Contracting Group in Lenexa, Kansas, believes that AP professionals can sometimes lose sight of the “whys and wherefores” of… Read More
When looking at the damaging effects of fraud on a business, three major companies come to mind: WorldCom, Enron, and Toys ‘R’ Us. In each of these cases, weak or nonexistent internal controls… Read More

A common myth about purchasing cards (P-cards) is that they are easy targets for fraud and employee misuse. The pervasiveness of this myth may have convinced some organizations to resist their

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Accounts payable fraud is everywhere. And while you may be convinced it’s not happening in your department, consider this statistic: According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’

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By Pam Miller, APMD There are many controls that can be put into place to ensure that the transactions completed are valid and that the organization is protected from deliberate fraud as well as… Read More
Although research shows that the number of organizations that use check payments is decreasing, many organizations are still relying heavily on these paper remittances. With check fraud still the… Read More

Best_Practices_for_Elevating_Your_Accounts_Payable_Internal_Controls_&_Compliance_ProgramAs a foundational corporate transactional function, accounts payable establishes the integrity of the supplier master file within the Procure to Pay (P2P) process and ensures accuracy of this

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Security directors already have a full plate of concerns related to international security risks, but you need to add another, warns James Clapper Jr., Director of National Intelligence. Clapper told

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, the great majority of cyber attacks do not have a large impact on corporations, according to Dr. Gordon and Dr. Loeb, authors of Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A

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Physical security failures are at least partly to blame for why federal officials are ramping up enforcement of current regulations and proposing to strengthen existing medical privacy and security

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