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Overview

The Data Templates for the Concur Data Delivery Service (DDS) Expense content package offers a powerful solution for visualizing and analyzing data captured in SAP Concur Expense. Seamlessly integrated with SAP Data Delivery Services and utilizing the SAP Analytics Cloud for data visualization, this solution provides administrators with comprehensive insights into organizational expenses, system administration, and user distributions. Its advanced analytics capabilities include robust auditing and control features essential for fraud detection and compliance assurance.

Built upon Analytical Models in SAP Datasphere and visualized in SAP Analytics Cloud, this content package encompasses a suite of detailed stories that deliver in-depth perspectives on expense management. These insights empower administrators to make informed decisions, optimize expense workflows, and enhance overall financial governance.

Serving as a crucial resource for risk detection, compliance monitoring, and analysis, the Risk & Compliance SAC story aids in identifying, investigating, and mitigating potential anomalies. It empowers your compliance team to proactively address issues, ensuring adherence to policies and regulations. Additionally, this page offers actionable insights and key data indicators to strengthen your organization's defenses against suspicious activities.

Potential Fraud Summary

This page provides an in-depth analysis of potential suspicious behavior within your organization. It highlights key metrics and indicators associated with suspicious expense reports, such as possible duplicate expense entries and attendee discrepancies. Serving as an overview for risk detection and analysis, this page assists in identifying, investigating, and mitigating potential suspicious activities in the Concur Expense module.

  • Potential Duplicate Expenses per Employee: This chart identifies employees with the highest expenses attributed to potential duplicate items, aiding in the detection and prevention of erroneous or fraudulent claims. 
  • Top Expense Categories with Potential Duplicates: This chart sheds light on expense categories prone to duplication. 
  • Geographic Tree map: This visualization maps potential duplicate incidents, providing a clear geographic distribution of areas where potential fraudulent activities may be prevalent. 
  • Top Payment Type for Potential Duplicate Transactions: This chart provides insight into payment types associated with duplicate entries. 

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Duplicate Expense Items

As part of the Risk and Compliance Insights Dashboard, the "Duplicate Expense Items" page offers a detailed examination of potential duplicate expenses within the financial records or claims captured in SAP Concur. Through thorough analysis of expense data, this page identifies instances of potential duplicate entries, aiding in the prevention of erroneous or fraudulent claims. With a focus on enhancing accuracy and compliance, this page supports proactive measures to mitigate risks associated with duplicate expenses. 

  • Total Count of Potential Duplicate Expense Items Over Time: This chart monitors the historical count of duplicate expense items over time, providing insights into trends and changes in potential duplicate entries. 
  • Top Duplicate Expense Items by Expense Type: This chart identifies leading duplicate expense items by expense type, highlighting categories most prone to duplication. 
  • Duplicate Expense Items by Payment Type: This chart analyzes duplicate expense items by payment type, offering insights into which payment methods are most associated with duplicate entries. 
  • Highest Count of Duplicate Expense Items: This chart identifies the top employees with the highest counts of duplicate expense items, highlighting individuals who may require closer monitoring. 
  • Highest Amount of Duplicate Expense Items: This chart highlights instances with the highest amounts of duplicate expense items, identifying significant cases that may require further investigation. 
  • Potential Duplicate Expense - Details: This table provides detailed transactional data on potential duplicate expenses, offering granular insights into each suspect entry for further analysis and verification. 

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Duplicate Attendees

The "Duplicate Attendees" page provides a thorough analysis of potential duplicate attendees across various company events and submitted expense reports. By carefully examining the declared attendee data within an expense entry line, this page identifies instances of expense entries that potentially include duplicate attendees, aiding in the detection and prevention of fraudulent or inaccurate claims. With a commitment to enhancing transparency and compliance, this page empowers organizations to take proactive measures to mitigate risks associated with potential duplicate attendees. 

  • Identifying Leading Duplicate Attendees by Attendee Types: This chart tracks the tendency of duplicate attendees over time, highlighting the most common attendee types prone to duplication. 
  • Top Duplicate Attendees by Expense Type: This chart pinpoints duplicate attendees based on expense types, identifying categories where attendee duplications are most frequent. 
  • Top Duplicate Attendees by Attendee Type: This chart identifies leading duplicate attendees categorized by attendee types, highlighting individuals or groups most frequently associated with duplicate entries in expense reports. 
  • Top Spending Employees with Potential Duplicate Attendees: This chart uncovers employees with the highest occurrences of potential duplicate attendees, identifying individuals whose expense reports may require closer examination for accuracy and compliance. 
  • Claims with Duplicate Attendees per Approval Status: This chart evaluates claims with duplicate attendees based on their approval status, providing insights into how duplicate attendee issues vary across different stages of the approval process. 
  • Expense Reports with Potential Duplicate Attendees - Details: This table presents transactional data detailing expense reports suspected of containing duplicate attendees, providing a comprehensive breakdown for thorough analysis and verification. 

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Credit Card Late Fees

As a part of the Risk and Compliance Insights Dashboard, the "Credit Card Late Fees" page offers a detailed overview of late payment penalties associated with credit card transactions within your organization. By analyzing transaction data, this page identifies instances of late payments and associated fees that were declared and/or reimbursed as another expense type, aiding in the detection and prevention of unnecessary reimbursement or financial losses. With a focus on optimizing payment processes and enhancing compliance, this page provides valuable insights to help organizations mitigate potential risks related to credit card late fees. 

  • Top Employees with Approved Credit Card Late Fees: This chart identifies employees with the highest amounts of approved credit card late fees, highlighting individuals whose expenses include significant late payment penalties. 
  • Top Expense Types for Credit Card Late Fees: This chart identifies the most frequently used expense types for declaring credit card late fees, highlighting common categories where late fees are incurred and reported. 
  • Credit Card Late Fees - Expense Details: This table provides detailed transactional data on credit card late fees incurred and how they were declared by the requesting employee, offering a breakdown of expenses related to late payments for thorough analysis and management. 

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