Types of Accounts Payable Fraud and Strategies for Detection Accounts payable (AP) fraud is a serious danger to the financial integrity and stability of organizations such as enterprises, NGOs, and governments. I will try to explain what are the ways for accounts payable fraud prevention as well.
Perpetrators create fictitious invoices for goods or services that were never delivered or rendered. Also, there is a possibility of fraudsters submiting multiple invoices for the same goods or services to receive duplicate payments.
Criminals create counterfeit checks using stolen or falsified account information to deceive organizations and financial institutions.
To detect and prevent possible fraud from happening you could try to analyze AP transactions, payment patterns, and vendor connections using data analytics tools and monitoring systems to look for anomalies, trends, and patterns that may indicate fraud.