How Employees Maneuver around Approval Limits and Circumvent Guidelines is a nightmare every #accountspayable, #accounting, an audit group have to deal with. Employees looking to get around #internalcontrols, who don’t are trying to get around approval guidelines or employee expense reporting will try these tricks.
When it comes to employee expense reports and expense report games employees play, some employees are expert at finding ways to circumvent the guidelines. They believe expense rules are for other people. Expense report game playing goes on all the time with questionable expense approvals in play. These are the same people who believe expense limits are for other people and they find ways to get around expense guidelines. While they don’t think of this is fraud, it is a type of occupational fraud. Thus, this falls under the topic of how to detect employee fraud.
This is Accounts Payable Sound Bite #57
How Employees Maneuver around Approval Limits and Circumvent Guidelines is an ongoing problem for many organizations. Accounts payable, accounting, and audit groups must address the issues raised when employees looking to get around internal controls play games. Typically, they are trying to skirt approval guidelines. This is one of many employee expense reporting deceits they play.
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