Accounts Payable (AP) recovery audit services focus on analyzing a company's AP transactions to identify and recover funds that were erroneously paid out. These services scrutinize past payments to detect issues such as duplicate payments, overpayments, missed discounts, unclaimed credit notes, and errors in payment terms. The primary aim is to recover these lost funds and return them to the business. Additionally, AP recovery audits provide insights into the root causes of these discrepancies. By identifying these underlying issues, businesses can improve their internal controls, enhance the efficiency of their AP processes, streamline vendor relationships and reduce the likelihood of similar financial errors occurring in the future. These audits are crucial for maintaining financial integrity and can lead to significant cost savings for organizations.
Gartner defines financial reconciliation solutions as the key tool that enables the controllership team to manage and reconcile financial transactions across internal and external data sources. Financial reconciliation solutions replace manual transactional matching efforts with a standardized and automated workflow, configurable to predefined business rules. These solutions are cloud-deployed via software as a service (SaaS)