Recently a large municipal government has made news headlines after it was discovered that frequent double payments of vendor invoices had occurred. Some of these double payments had significant dollar values attached to them.

What procedural recommendations would you make to ensure that a organization never faces a similar problem within their Finance department? Are there any controls in SAP that may assist with this issue

-segregation of duties
Have on person in charge of writing the cheques, and another person in charge of making the journal entries for it.