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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 receivables needs them, collectors included.

For everyone who touches a client’s receivables.

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 industry 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 Billing before delivery or completion (pre-billing).
  5. 05 Duplicate Financing The same receivables financed by more than one lender.
  6. 06 Manipulating the Aging Applying customer payments to unfunded invoices to keep the cash.
  7. 07 Withholding Credit Memos Credit memos held back to keep invoices funded.
  8. 08 Rolling Invoices Re-aging invoices so past-due receivables look current.
  9. 09 Concealment Hiding disputes, distress or adverse facts.
  10. 10 Collusion Clients, customers or insiders working together.
  11. 11 Failure to Give Notice of Assignment Customers left unaware the account is assigned.
  12. 12 Diverted Payments Customer payments diverted away from the financier.
  13. 13 Money Laundering Criminal money cleaned through inflated invoices and the financier’s account.

6 case scenarios

Investigate, decide, and see the cost of delay.

Learners take the role of an account executive 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

A machining firm re-ages invoices to keep past-due receivables eligible.

Ahead of Schedule

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

The Missing Credits

A food distributor stops issuing credit memos for grocery-chain deductions.

Two Lenders, One Ledger

A trucking company finances the same invoices twice through a sister company.

A Friend in Purchasing

A customer insider confirms deliveries that never happened.

Following the Money

A staffing firm diverts customer 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.

Collusion
  • A friendly voice
  • Same address, different names
  • The helpful colleague
Concealment
  • The co-owner who left
  • What the financials didn't say
Detecting fraud
  • A very good excuse
  • The quiet change
Diverted payments
  • A letter about new bank details
  • Paid, but still open
Double financing
  • The new lien
Duplicate financing
  • Two lenders, one truck
Fictitious invoicing
  • A customer nobody has met
  • Just under the line
Field exams
  • Ten minutes at audit
Introduction to fraud
  • Mistake, one-off or plan?
  • Paper into cash
Manipulating the aging
  • 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 truck
  • 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 memos
  • Credits after the cut-off
  • The short payment

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Tracked

Progress and scores, ready for audit, risk committees and funders.

Kept current

New courses, cases and refreshers are added to your subscription as they are released.

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