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Finance inspector reviewing expense report documentation and receipts during an audit
Guides 23 min read

Expense Report Audit: How Do You Get From 5% Sampling to 100% Coverage?

Most teams audit 3-10% of expense reports after payment. Learn how to design a pre-payment expense report audit that covers 100% without adding headcount.

Chirashree Dan
Finance controller reviewing suspicious employee expense claims and receipts for fraud indicators
Guides 19 min read

Expense Report Fraud: The Four Schemes and How to Design Against Them

Expense reimbursement fraud is small, frequent and slow to surface. Learn the four scheme types, why approval misses them, and how to design controls that work.

Chirashree Dan
Finance team drafting a travel and expense policy document with spend limits and approval rules
Guides 21 min read

How to Write a Travel and Expense Policy That Software Can Actually Enforce

Most T&E policies are prose no system can test. Learn how to structure travel and expense policy rules so they become enforceable logic, not guidance.

Chirashree Dan
Finance and operations team reviewing a delegated approval queue on screen while the assigned approver is away
Guides 22 min read

What Happens to Approvals When the Approver Is on Leave? Designing Delegation and Fallback

Approval delegation and fallback approvers stop finance workflows stalling when approvers go on leave. Design rules, hierarchy controls and audit trails.

Chirashree Dan
Finance controller reviewing flagged duplicate employee expense claims and receipt images during a pre-payment audit
Guides 21 min read

How Do You Detect Duplicate Employee Expense Claims Before You Pay Them?

Employee expense fraud detection must cover 7 duplicate patterns, from shared receipts to card double-dips. See the detection techniques and control design.

Chirashree Dan
AI Governance for Finance Automation: Build Compliance Frameworks Without Slowing Innovation
Guides 42 min read

AI Governance for Finance Automation: Build Compliance Frameworks Without Slowing Innovation

Comprehensive guide to AI governance for finance teams deploying intelligent automation. Establish audit trails, explainability standards

Chirashree Dan