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Accounts payable fraud
Accounts payable fraud encompasses schemes where money is diverted from a business through its payment system — most commonly via ghost vendors, duplicate payments, split bills, and altered payee details.
AP fraud is particularly dangerous because each individual transaction looks ordinary. A bill from a fabricated vendor looks like any other bill. A split payment cluster passes per-bill review because no single bill exceeds the approval limit. Invoice Auditor doesn't declare fraud — it surfaces the patterns and fingerprints associated with known fraud schemes as read-only flags for your review. A human investigates and decides. The value is in catching the patterns early, before they run for months unnoticed, and in giving bookkeepers, controllers, and AP teams a defensible control layer they can show to clients and auditors.
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