> The labor cost is often huge. In a big company it's often a hassle to pay something to a "new vendor". It usually takes a long time. > If you don't prevent

> The labor cost is often huge. In a big company it's often a hassle to pay something to a "new vendor". It usually takes a long time. > If you don't prevent fraud at the $500 level you'll have two problems I had a colleague who used to work in the Auditing section. He had various stories of people committing fraud (stories of 50k USD+). There's a cost to trying to prevent all cases of fraud and that might hurt more than to try and prevent everything. I've also heard cases (not from the auditing guy) where a vendor notified that we paid them 1000 times too much (caused by an input error with the , and the .). That happened despite several layers of checks. > At a "really big company" the labor cost of paying an invoice might be $2000. At a "really big company" if something is a good idea then it'll get done. And those handling administrative tasks are often "outsourced" to cheaper countries, e.g. India/Philippines/China/etc. There have been several donations to "good causes". Those were handled without trying to figure out the cost of someone working in an entirely different part of the world and company. This as it's not like someone will specifically will be hired, or it really matters. They usually made an event out of an donation (e.g. handing out something in person in an office). Funny enough the event surrounding that was often poorly attended. > that's $750 of labor costs just to have the dev team possibly agree to support urllib3 You're not talking about a donation any more.