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Vendor master hygiene: the quiet control behind clean payments
Duplicate vendors, stale bank details and missing tax data cause duplicate payments, fraud and compliance problems. A clean vendor master prevents all three. A practical guide to cleaning it and keeping it clean.
Benford’s law in practice: a simple test that points to unusual numbers
In many real-world sets of numbers, the first digit is far more often 1 than 9. When a ledger breaks that pattern, it is worth a look. How the test works, where it helps and where it misleads.
Duplicate payments: how much is normal, and how to stop them
Every accounts payable team pays some invoices twice. The useful questions are how many, why, and whether your controls would notice. Here is how to find them and keep them from coming back.
Know every vendor by what it does: TPRM beyond questionnaires
Third-party risk programmes run on questionnaires that vendors fill in once a year. The risk shows up somewhere else: in payments, bank changes, filings and the news. Here is how to watch it.
Paying MSMEs in 45 days: what Section 43B(h) means for your P&L
Under India’s Income-tax Act, late payments to micro and small suppliers can cost you the tax deduction for that year. Here is how the rule works in outline, and how to know which invoices are at risk before year end.
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