When making payments to employees for things such as T&E, some organizations run these payments through the payroll system. From AP’s perspective, what is the advantage of doing this?
Answer B is perhaps inconsistent. Those who are not making AP payment electronicaly may perhaps not using electronic payment system even for salary and in such case even salary cheque can be tampered. There would be different type of concern like T & E payments wrongly added/not added in salary, delay in getting inputs would also require more time to be spent on reconciliation.
MNadkarni on October 8
Yes--good point. You could look at it as since there will be one paper check instead of two, that the chance for overall check fraud is less since there are less paper checks cut. This question came from our IOMA/TAPN Certification program. I'll relay your comment to those folks who devise the test questions. Thanks, Andy
ADZAMBA on October 8
I do not understand how you cannot set them up in the AP vendor file. Where does the expense history reside for audit purposes and AP research to ensure there are no duplicate expenses processed?
LRUSTEMIS on October 30
Detailed history can reside in whatever T&E system you're using and there will also be payment history in the payroll system. Duplicates expenses are prevented during expense report review prior to payment--someone's got to check the backup.
