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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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Episode 363: 4 Tasks To Do Now To Get Your Vendor...

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2025/11/06

It’s time to start vendor data tasks that will make tax reporting season easier if you do them now! What are they? And listen to the end for a bonus task that may reduce your vendor inquiries….. 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 w...

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Episode 362: 6 Ways The IRS Can Reach Out To You and...

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2025/10/30

When will the IRS contact you? How will they contact you? Is it really them? To hear how and when they will reach out and how you can tell if you are communicating with a fraudster…. 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 ...

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Episode 361: Kubikle - Cybercrime's Office Life

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2025/10/23

It’s almost the end of the 25th annual October Cybersecurity Awareness Month and if you haven’t heard of or watched the cybercriminal version of “The Office” it’s time! 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 t...

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Episode 360: Fraudsters Have a Way to Pass Payee...

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2025/10/16

Fraudsters have evolved again – this time with check fraud because they have found a way to bypass payee positive pay. So 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 the Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team.&nb...

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Episode 359: Vendor Is Not Registered in Their...

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2025/10/09

If one of your vendor validations is checking with the State of your vendor but find that the vendor is not registered with the State of their address….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 the Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training...

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Episode 358: 3 Ways AI In Your Existing Automation...

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2025/10/02

Many automation software platforms including email to invoicing have artificial intelligence embedded in them. You may not think that email or invoicing software can help fight fraud in the vendor process, but yes they can and here’s how... 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 t...

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Episode 357: The Riskiest Scams For This Age Group is...

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2025/09/25

If you are in this age group (or not) and looking for a job….. 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 for the Vendor team. Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpful resources: ...

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Episode 356: 5 Ways to Speed Up the Vendor Onboarding...

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2025/09/18

I asked ChatGPT what vendor onboarding professionals have been searching for in the past week – and one of the blaring results was how to onboard vendors faster. I have five tips to speed up the vendor process…. 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 fo...

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26:46

Episode 355: Before Allowing Non-Vendor Team Members...

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2025/09/11

Do you have a non-vendor team member performing the confirmation call? I don’t recommend that certain steps are put into place to reduce the potential for both internal and external fraud. What are they? 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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Episode 354: Tariffs May Affect Your Vendor Validations

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2025/09/04

Tariffs are here and many vendor team members may be busier than ever with how they have caused changes in the vendor process. There may be additional validations involved in four areas… 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 li...

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Episode 353: Low-Cost But High-Impact Vendor...

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2025/08/28

If you’re looking for a low-cost vendor validation step to deter fraud – I have one for you in today’s episode. 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 for the Vendor team. Links mentioned in the...

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Episode 352: Recurring Vendor Validations: Ensure...

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2025/08/21

Validating vendor information and checking that they are not on any applicable sanction lists is a part of your vendor on-boarding process, but what about after the on-boarding process? Today’s episode is a webinar that not only has a five-step process for recurring vendor validations, but lots of five downloads to help you get started. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and bes...

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Episode 351: What To Do When Your Company Wants to Do...

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2025/08/14

A vendor in your vendor master file is inactive – and for good reason, because the last time your company paid that vendor was four years ago. Now your company wants to use that vendor again – don’t just change the status that can lead to failed payments and bad vendor data. Why and what should you do instead? ` Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to preve...

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Episode 350: 3 Things I Learned From Attending the...

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2025/08/07

Did you know that the IRS has working group meetings for the Information Returns Intake System (IRIS)? To find out three things I learned when I attended, what the IRS says FIRE users should do now and how you can attend the next one.. 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 Pr...

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Episode 349: Is That Your Co-Worker or Colleague...

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2025/07/31

If a co-worker or colleague contacted you on social media – how do you tell if it’s them or not? 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 for the Vendor team. Links mentioned in the podcast + other help...

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Episode 348: Converting Vendors From Check to ACH...

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2025/07/24

Check fraud is increasing, they take longer to settle, and they cost more in supplies and manpower. All great reasons to convert your check payment vendors to ACH payment. But don’t use that as a way to clean your vendor master file, that task needs to be done first. Here are five do’s and one big don’t that you need to think about before you get started. Keep listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication t...

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Episode 347: Access Gone Wrong - 4 Times When...

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2025/07/17

Are you performing security audits, so you know who has access to your systems? Listen to today’s episode to for 4 scenarios when employees or contractors used their system access for fraudulent purposes. Then see how you can get a 5-step plan to perform a system audit. 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...

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Episode 346: A Big IRS Tax Reporting Change Effective...

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2025/07/10

After last week’s episode revealing an IRS announcement, once the big, beautiful tax bill was passed there is at least more tax reporting change for Tax Year 2026 that can reduce a huge burden, but there is one more factor to keep in mind. 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 Vend...

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Episode 345: What The IRS Just Announced About The...

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2025/07/03

Check out the IRS’s announcement about changes to e-filing just before the July 4th holiday! 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 for the Vendor team. Links mentioned in the podcast + other he...

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Episode 344: Another Fraudulent Payment After A BEC...

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2025/06/26

When it comes to the vendor and buyer and who is responsible when there is a fraudulent payment can depend on the country. Here is what happened in another court case…. 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 t...

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