Dump the Dupes: Tips for Avoiding Multiple Payments

Disbursement Agent Julie Moehring is on a constant quest to eliminate duplicate payments—a common scourge of every AP operation and a real disaster for those departments that handle a large volume of invoices. “When duplicate payments are undetected, that means the company is putting out more money than it should,” says Moehring. “That means there is obviously less money in the bank earning interest. Also, if the duplicate is never discovered, the company is out that money forever,” she…