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Detecting & Preventing Fraud

Spot it sooner. Stop it earlier.

13 courses · 6 case scenarios · 32 refreshers

Thirteen courses, each on one real receivables finance fraud: how it is carried out, the red flags that expose it, and the controls that stop it. Everyone who touches a client’s ledger needs them, credit controllers included.

For everyone who touches a client’s ledger.

The courses

13 courses, one job each.

Every course teaches a single task or idea the learner needs at work, with hands-on activities and a scored review.

  1. 01 Introduction to Fraud in Receivables Finance Why the sector is targeted and how fraud unfolds.
  2. 02 Detecting & Preventing Fraud Core warning signs and the controls that catch fraud early.
  3. 03 Fictitious Invoicing Invoices for goods or services never supplied.
  4. 04 Pre-Invoicing Invoices raised before delivery or completion.
  5. 05 Duplicate Financing The same receivables funded by more than one lender.
  6. 06 Manipulating the Ageing Posting customer payments to unfunded debt to keep the cash.
  7. 07 Withholding Credit Notes Credits held back to keep invoices funded.
  8. 08 Rolling Invoices Cycling invoices so unpaid debt never appears to age.
  9. 09 Concealment Hiding disputes, distress or adverse facts.
  10. 10 Collusion Clients, debtors or insiders working together.
  11. 11 Failure to Give Notice of Assignment Debtors left unaware the debt is assigned.
  12. 12 Banking Direct Payments Debtor payments diverted from the funder.
  13. 13 Money Laundering Criminal money cleaned through inflated invoices and the funder’s account.

6 case scenarios

Investigate, decide, and see the cost of delay.

Learners take the role of a client manager and work a client file from the first warning sign, through investigation and a key decision, to recovery. A running exposure figure shows what every delay costs.

The Clean Ledger

An engineering firm re-dates invoices to keep overdue debt inside the cut-off.

Ahead of Schedule

A facilities contractor bills work before it is done, and some that never was.

The Missing Credits

A food distributor stops raising credits for supermarket deductions.

Two Lenders, One Ledger

A haulier funds the same invoices twice through a sister company.

A Friend in Purchasing

A debtor insider confirms deliveries that never happened.

Following the Money

A recruiter diverts debtor payments while hiding financial distress.

32 refreshers

Five minutes each, all year, so it sticks.

Each refresher is a short story with one activity, released every two weeks. Here is every one, by the course it reinforces.

Banking direct payments
  • A letter about new bank details
  • Paid, but still open
Client audits
  • Ten minutes at audit
Collusion
  • A friendly voice
  • Same address, different names
  • The helpful colleague
Concealment
  • The director who left
  • What the accounts didn't say
Detecting fraud
  • A very good excuse
  • The quiet change
Duplicate financing
  • The new charge
  • Two lenders, one lorry
Fictitious invoicing
  • A customer nobody has met
  • Just under the line
Introduction to fraud
  • Mistake, one-off or plan?
  • Paper into cash
Manipulating the ageing
  • The payment that went to the old invoice
  • Too tidy
Money laundering
  • Money from the wrong place
  • Never needs chasing
  • Not a word to the client
Notice of assignment
  • Paid in full, to the wrong people
  • The old template
Pre-invoicing
  • Friday’s invoices, Monday’s lorry
  • Nearly finished
Rolling invoices
  • A young ledger with no cash
  • Same amount, new number
Verification
  • The verification call
Warning signs
  • Which fraud is this?
Why fraud escalates
  • The cash squeeze
Withholding credit notes
  • Credits after the cut-off
  • The short payment

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