Slide 2 - Tests to Find Duplicate Invoices

Below you can see the results of the extraction of multiple records with the same vendor, same new invoice number. The circles indicate where Accounts Payable clerks manually overrode the system control that was supposed to prevent the entry of the same invoice number to the same vendor. The rectangle highlights where our field manipulation identified a duplicate invoice by stripping the punctuation out of the original invoice number. We recovered almost $5 million for this client from payment of duplicate invoices.