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AP audit

An accounts payable audit is a review of a company's outgoing payments, vendor records, and purchase processes to identify duplicate payments, overcharges, fraud risks, and control weaknesses.

Traditional AP audits are manual, expensive, and sample-based — an auditor reviews a subset of transactions and extrapolates. The problem is that the costly errors (cross-object duplicates, ghost vendors, price creep) rarely appear in a random sample. Invoice Auditor takes a different approach: it reads every bill, payment, vendor, and credit across the connected period and runs all 16 checks in one pass. It's a 100% review, not a sample, and it surfaces findings with the evidence behind each one — so your AP team can focus on confirming the handful that matter rather than combing through everything.

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