Artificial intelligence uncovers outrageous employee expense reports

These are among the expenses employees bill to their companies, according to AppZen, a provider of financial software. You've got to hand it to them, employees are certainly creative in their perceptions of what constitutes business expenses. Businesses process an average of 100,000 expense reports and 700,000 invoices a year, and that means suspect expenses are falling through the cracks, according to AppZen's The State of Business Spend report for Q4 2019. The problem is that most modern invoice automation systems can look out for two invoices with the same invoice number, or the same amount, and stop a payment that appears to be a duplicate, according to AppZen. But they don't find typos in invoice numbers, duplicates across expense and AP systems – or, ahem, interesting items employees bill to their employers.