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It seems like tedious paperwork exercises would make it easier for scams like this to happen, since there’s no one person with the responsibility to say yes or
by baddox 8y ago
It seems like tedious paperwork exercises would make it easier for scams like this to happen, since there’s no one person with the responsibility to say yes or no to specific purchases/invoices. If the responsibility is placed on the bureaucratic process rather than specific people, surely that’s going to make it easier for bad stuff to slip through (while also making it more challenging to get legitimate requests through).
- sokoloff 8y agoWhat is intended to happen is someone fills out a vendor creation form (to guard against paying the wrong vendor/bank account), fills out a PO, later someone agrees they received goods or services against that PO, later AP receives an invoice, AP checks against the PO that goods/services have been received in the amount of the invoice, and pays the invoice to the previously setup vendor information. When properly followed, the process makes scams harder, not easier. If people don't follow the process... (You can look at this as the process having one person responsible for each step in the process, with the system recording each step.)