Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud

Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud by XCabbage on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:36AM (#18599705)

I read it as "the expenses software requires expenses to be filed under one of a small number of categories, and the employee went for 'hotel' because it was the closest one available". I guess both interpretations are possible.

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Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud by scarejunba on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:02AM (#18599964)

Haha. Almost certainly what happened. If you want your people straining to figure out which category something is in then you're wasting their time.

Should've used the tool to select the right category instead of making a human select a category and then dinging them for it. Then Finance can approve or whatever.

The real thievery is the time expense software is stealing from the company by making people pick among all these categories.

If it takes you an hour to fill in expenses, that task just cost the company half a grand.

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Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:42PM (#18603829)

> The real thievery is the time expense software is stealing from the company by making people pick among all these categories.

Oh yes. At my first workplace, I ended up using Emacs keyboard macros to convert from a bank statement dump to a format that could be imported into expense reporting system, and it took me less time than it would take to type in everything manually, because the system UI was so broken.

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Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud by ameister14 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:30AM (#18600246)

Possible, yes, but one requires multiple other leaps.

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