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PODCAST

Putting the AP in hAPpy

Debra R Richardson

A weekly podcast providing fraud prevention and vendor setup training to protect the vendor master file. Immediate takeaways with actionable steps you can implement today into your vendor onboarding and maintenance process to reduce fraud and regulatory fines. Great tips for the Accounts Payable and Procurement teams to clean-up their vendor data, clean-up their vendor processes so that they can pay the right vendor.

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24:19

Episode 324: How Often Should You Clean Your Vendor...

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2025/02/06

Now that most of you have distributed your 1099’s to the vendor and filed the related forms to the IRS it’s fresh in your mind that there are issues with your vendor master file. If you want a recommendation for how often you should be cleaning it and what you should include... 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 ...

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17:50

Episode 323: A Fraudulent Payment After A BEC Scam...

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2025/01/30

A case of business email compromise where the vendor sued the buyer when the buyer made a fraudulent payment to a fraudster impersonating the vendor. A classic business email compromise scam goes to court. 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 the Vendor Process Training Center for ...

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15:43

Episode 322: 2 More Recommended Vendor Validations...

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2025/01/23

I added two recommendations for vendor validations to add to your vendor setup and maintenance process. See which ones they are and where to validate. 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 the Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training...

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13:06

Episode 321: One Critical Thing I Learned Testing the...

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2025/01/16

If you are satisfying your IRS tax reporting requirements by using the IRIS platform from the IRS, you may be interested in what I found while creating a demo of the system. 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 a...

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Episode 320: 3 Ways to Find A Missed Fraudulent...

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2025/01/09

Welcome back. In this episode I’ll talk about how to find if a fraudulent payment happened in December during the busy year-end.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...

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17:15

Episode 319: Confirmation Call Scripts #5 –...

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2024/12/19

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 (in for this episode, the email) more apt to confirm their information. This is the 5th episode in this series of 5. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques...

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Episode 318: Confirmation Call Scripts #4 – Adding...

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2024/12/12

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 4th episode in this series of 5. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best pra...

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21:40

Episode 317: Confirmation Call Scripts #3 – Changing...

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2024/12/05

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 5. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and be...

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19:08

Episode 316: Confirmation Call Scripts #2 – Adding...

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2024/11/21

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...

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19:31

Episode 315: Confirmation Call Scripts #1 – Changing...

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2024/11/14

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...

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Episode 314: Find Fraud With This Verification for...

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2024/11/07

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...

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Episode 313: When Corporations Are Reportable on...

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2024/10/31

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...

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22:26

Episode 312: 3 Worst Practices With Vendor Data That...

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2024/10/24

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...

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Episode 311: The New “Easy Pickings” BEC Scam Targets

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2024/10/17

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...

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Episode 310: Bridging the Gap From Cybersecurity...

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2024/10/10

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...

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Episode 309: Avoid Fraud at Year End - 5 Email...

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2024/10/03

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...

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Episode 308: A New IRS Form That Can Make It Easier...

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2024/09/26

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 +...

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Episode 307: Collecting and Validating Vendor...

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2024/09/19

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...

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Episode 306: Cleaning Your Vendor Master File &...

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2024/09/12

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 ...

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Episode 305: Avoid Paper Check Fraud When Paying...

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2024/09/05

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...

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