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This time last year we talked about the significant shift in the world of Accounts Payable, as the department moves from a processing department to an...

Here’s an interesting fact from the Oversight T&E vault:

A significant shift is underway in the world of Accounts Payable, as the department moves from a processing department to an essential financial analy...

In 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which administers and enforces U.S. economic and trade sanctions, iss...

With the Tax Day deadline just a week away, you can’t escape the buzz of people either celebrating or lamenting their tax returns. It seems you’re eit...

The world of corporate finance is rife with the potential risk for fraud, erroneous payments, and a whole slew of employee behaviors that add up over ...

If you’re a CFO looking to improve your company’s processes and save money by implementing a robo-auditor, you might be wondering where to start.

The key to making finance process automation successful at your company is not just the analytics but what actions you take based on that analysis. Yo...

One common obstacle that stops CFOs from implementing a robo-auditing system in their company is a lack of awareness surrounding the benefits of such ...

If you’re a CFO, you’re probably familiar with the concept of using a financial auditing system that incorporates artificial intelligence, automation,...

Artificial intelligence is slowly taking over roles once reserved for humans. AI can now diagnose pneumonia more accurately than radiologists. In 20 y...

A once prominent physician fraudulently charges the same trip to Japan to three different employers, including two universities and a private firm. Ov...

I first learned about artificial intelligence (AI) sitting in a computer science class at University of California, Berkeley. I was immediately hooked...

When he’s on the road, Joe frequents gentlemen’s clubs on the company dime. Before she leaves on a business trip, Melissa boards her dog and later sub...

You never plan to have inaccurate data in your vendor master file, but it happens over time. Incorrect and unnecessary vendor data builds up, which ca...

Recently a prospective customer asked the question, “Since we are using Concur doesn’t it already do everything that your product does?”  One simple a...

It has always been the thought that technology is supposed to help us do more, and do it better and faster than before. Unfortunately the theory and t...

I remember as a kid watching the TV show “The Six-Million Dollar Man”; the scientists and doctors got together and made the man “better, stronger, fas...

In my previous blog post for Oversight, I detailed how Excel no longer cuts it for expense reporting. In the world of reporting and analysis, Excel is...

Consider this scenario: You are a travel program administrator at a Fortune 500 company. You are tasked with managing the travel program, making sure ...