Avoid Regulatory Fines
Payment Fraud and Bad Vendor Data

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Vendor Validations for Public Sector Accounts Payable Teams

  • Live Date:  Tuesday, May 19, 2026
  • On-Demand Access:  Available
  • Trainer: Debra R Richardson, MBA, APPM, APM, CPRS

session description

Are You A Public Sector and Not Sure if you are performing all required vendor validations? Do you want to know which validations can prevent payment fraud?

Validating vendor information is critical to avoid regulatory fines, payment fraud and bad vendor data. Walk through 18 vendor validations and understand which are required for public sector entities to avoid regulatory fines and which are recommended to avoid payment fraud and bad vendor data. Vendor validations reviewed include vendor tax identification numbers, addresses, sanctions lists and banking information along with explanations for why the validations are required or recommended. Attendees will receive a Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links with 28 potential resources for the 18 validations reviewed. 

Immediate Takeaways:
  • Understand 18 vendor validations and when they are required to be performed
  • Immediately implement validations to avoid regulatory fines, payment fraud and bad vendor data
  • Know how to identify hidden vendors in your vendor master file that are Non-US which require additional validations
  • A copy of the Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links to customize and share with your team!
  • Download:  Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links
  • Download:  Cabarrus County, NC - Case Study
  • Download:  PDF of the Presentation

session content

Trainer

Debra R Richardson, MBA, CFE, APM, APPM, CPRS

With over 20 years at Fortune 500 companies including Verizon, General Motors, and Aramark, she trains you and your team with the authentication techniques, internal controls, best practices and vendor validations to avoid fraud, fines and bad vendor data. 

A Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Debra has extensive experience with many of the most prevalent ERPs, including SAP, PeopleSoft, NetSuite, Intacct and Munis, and have helped those in the private or public sector prevent internal and external fraud.

She serves on the NACHA ACH Network Advisory Board, is the Ask The Expert for vendor master file questions with IOFM, is the Chapter President for the Central Atlantic Region IOFM Chapter, and was named one of the Top 10 AP Influencers three years by the AP Association.  

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