Are you and your team members making confirmation calls to your vendors to confirm remittance information? If so, are you using confirmation call scripts? See how they can be valuable to prevent fraud and make the person receiving the call more apt to confirm their information. This is the 2nd episode in this series of 6. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best pra...

you using confirmation call scripts? See how they can be valuable to prevent fraud and make the person receiving the call more apt to confirm their information. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand trainin...

Add this additional verification when onboarding vendors that are individuals or sole proprietors to avoid fraud. What is it and what resources can you use to perform the verification? Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly liv...

Yes, payments to corporations may be reportable. In this episode we’ll talk about which 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC payments are reportable and which of those forms they should be reported. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of wee...

It’s getting toward the end of the year and now many of you may see the result of three worst practices with vendor data that can lead to compliance fines. If you want to know what are they and what you should be doing instead….. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new V...

Do you know what type of organizations the fraudsters are calling “easy pickings?” Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team. Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpf...

Want these immediate takeaways?Common security threats unique to the account payable functionResources for free and paid training to prevent fraudVendor setup and maintenance processes to avoid fraud5 Steps to customized training to prevent fraud Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check ou...

It’s 4th quarter already and while some of you finished your year-end, more are coming into their December 31st year-end – and the fraudsters know it! Make sure you know what tricks they will use in email as we come to the end of 2024.Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor P...

Don’t you just love it when the IRS comes out with new forms? Well, this form you probably will love!Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team. Links mentioned in the podcast +...

How about tips to avoid fraud when collecting banking details and more tips for how to validate banking to….you guessed it – avoid fraud. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team.&n...

It’s that time of year – time to start getting ready for tax filing season, or just to keep your vendor data accurate at all times. Get 20 tips to do both…Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for ...

Organizations like yours are still paying vendors by check and fraudsters know that, which means that fraudsters are still perpetrating check fraud. For a 5-step process to avoid paper check fraud….. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116...

It happens every time the IRS publishes a revised version of the Form W-9, vendors and maybe even your internal team members, push back because they don’t want to complete the new form when they can’t see why you can’t just accept the old one especially when their information has not changed….Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulator...

Is it frustrating when your vendor insists they gave you the right legal name and tax id combination on their IRS Form W-9, but the combination does not match IRS TIN records? To get tips on how to enter the legal name for a match….Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Pro...

It’s getting to that time of year where hopefully you are cleaning your vendor master file and now, you’re wondering about your vendor data. Why do you have some that have missing tax id’s, why some didn’t pass your latest validation about IRS TIN records, and how you can ensure that you collect valid taxpayer identification number in the future. This IRS Form W-9 Series is for you – and in this episode we’re talking about common mistakes for vendors in that first tax classificati...

When vendors change their banking, in addition to fraud, you also have to wonder what the reason for the change is. The reason, many times, may be discovered only if you require the W-9 be submitted for changes to vendor banking. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my...

Authentication, identification or just knowing who you are communicating with can prevent payment fraud from deepfakes and other scenarios. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the ...

So your vendor notifies you that they have entered into a factoring relationship with a 3rd party and now you have to remit your vendor’s payments to them. Now what?Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-dema...

Do you need strong methods for verifying vendor banking details to avoid fraud and returned payments? Spot warning signs, set up validation procedures and learn how automation is the key to reducing risks and issues in manual vendor banking validations. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor d...

Instant Payments are here and the FedNow® Service is now available with this new payment rail. Hear 5 quick facts I learned when I recently attended a meeting where this service was the presentation topic. I was surprised. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out my new Vendor P...

There are two vendor forms that are critical to avoid fraud, fines and bad vendor data. Each will have its own episode explaining why it is critical and what data to collect on the form and why. The second form is the Vendor Banking Form. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vend...

There are two vendor forms that are critical to avoid fraud, fines and bad vendor data. Each will have its own episode explaining why it is critical and what data to collect on the form and why. The first form is the Vendor Setup Form – with a twist. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor dat...

Remember the days where it was easier to spot an email from a fraudster because it had poor grammar? Well, fraudsters have access to generative artificial intelligence (just like we do) and now that fraudulent email may be grammatically correct as a college application essay. But there are still red flags you can look for….and controls you can put into place to mitigate. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing aut...

When was the last time you reviewed your security roles and what access is included? Reduce the potential for fraud by restricting who has access to your vendor data. Why? Because the less non-vendor team members that have access to sensitive data, the less potential for them to be social engineered into giving it away - resulting in fraud. Discover how the vendor team can implement a security audit with minimal IT input - in 5 steps. Keep Listening. Check ...