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AI Finance: Build an AP Billing Fraud Dashboard with AI

Even as an AI novice, easily build a professional AP fraud dashboard and best-practice workflow—without coding. Use ready-made prompts, try it, and customize it to your company.

Created byPeter Ilas, FCCAworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
All LevelsUpdated Sep 18, 2026

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleExplain how recurring AP analytics reveals fraud red flags
  • check_circleBuild the browser dashboard with AI and supplied files
  • check_circleValidate and correct the tool against expected results
  • check_circleApply a best-practice investigation workflow to flagged cases
  • check_circleRun the recurring monthly export and re-import process
  • check_circleCustomize the tool safely for another organization

About This Course

Billing schemes appear in 21% of occupational fraud cases. Their median loss is USD 90,000, and they typically continue for 14 months before detection. Yet AP fraud is often overlooked because each invoice or payment may look ordinary on its own. The real warning signs are scattered across invoice references, amounts, payment timing, vendor records, bank accounts, approval levels, and user activity.

This course turns those scattered signals into structured investigations. You will build a professional, browser-based AP Billing Fraud & Duplicate-Payment Dashboard that checks 24 defined fraud patterns and red-flag variants. But this is not only a technical build: you also receive a proven best-practice investigation workflow for assigning cases, gathering evidence, documenting reasoning, concluding or escalating, preserving review history, and continuing the work every month. The tool keeps linked evidence, status, comments, evidence references, and the conclusion together in one cumulative review file.

What you will build and do:

  • Build a professional tool without coding: follow three ready-made AI prompts from the first prototype to the complete recurring dashboard.
  • Detect 24 defined patterns and red flags: the dashboard investigates invoices, payments, vendor data, bank details, approvals, timing, transaction patterns, and user concentration.
  • Apply a best-practice investigation workflow: combine related findings into one case, assign an independent owner, gather evidence, document the reasoning, conclude, escalate, close, and follow up open work.
  • Prove that the tool works: test it on realistic fictitious data against exact Expected Results instead of trusting generated software blindly.
  • Continue every month: export the cumulative working master, re-import it, add new transactions, preserve prior review work, and identify new, changed, or reopened cases.
  • Customize it safely: adapt mappings, organizational dimensions, approval levels, thresholds, business hours, and workflow exactly to your company or client.

Your complete course package

🎁 BIG BONUS — the complete technical solution and operating workflow, not just a video course. You receive everything needed to reproduce the tool, understand it, test it, investigate cases consistently, run the monthly process, and customize it:

  • 29-page Course Notes and Prompt Library: complete copy-and-paste prompts, detailed step-by-step instructions, explanations, the best-practice investigation and monthly workflow, correction examples, and customization guidance in an editable Word document.
  • All five dashboard versions: follow the full evolution from prototype v0.1 through focused corrections, the red-flag and investigation engine, and the final v1.0 recurring tool.
  • Seven practical Excel workbooks: realistic source data, detailed rule and workflow specification, exact expected results, a new-month dataset, completed 12-month and 13-month exports, and the company configuration workbook for your own case.
  • AI-created Test Log: see what the AI tested after every version, what passed or failed, what was corrected and retested, and which checks still required a human.

For You:

Whether you work in AP, P2P, accounting, controlling, finance management, internal audit, fraud examination, or consulting, you finish with more than knowledge. You finish with a tested tool, a repeatable monthly process, and a practical AI capability you can demonstrate to your team, employer, or clients.

Course Content

5 activities • 28 videos • duration: 2h 53m

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How to Create the AP Billing Fraud Dashboard7 videos • 1 quiz • 40 min
  • videocamCourse Intro and Dashboard Presentation
    Duration 7:32
  • videocamCourse Structure
    Duration 8:27
  • videocamAP Billing Fraud Statistics 2026
    Duration 4:28
  • videocamInsider, Outsider, Collusion, Controls
    Duration 6:19
  • videocamFollow the Exact Pathx
    Duration 6:56
  • videocamWhy Not Just Excel
    Duration 3:43
  • videocamFictitious AP Case and Data
    Duration 3:22
  • quizHow to Create the AP Billing Fraud Dashboard Quiz
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Creating the Prototype and Data Checks4 videos • 1 quiz • 30 min
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Adding the Red Flag and Investigation Engine8 videos • 1 quiz • 48 min
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Final Build Adding the Recurring Workflow9 videos • 1 quiz • 53 min
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

Peter Ilas, FCCA

Practical AI for Accounting & Finance | Build Your Own Tools | Fraud Prevention, E-Invoicing & Ethics | 30 Years of Experience

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My courses focus on practical applications of AI in accounting and finance, alongside fraud prevention, e-invoicing and financial reporting ethics. – AI Finance: Build and customise reconciliation tools and fraud dashboards using plain-language prompts (“vibe coding”), without prior programming experience. Learn to validate results, protect sensitive data and create repeatable workflows. – Fraud prevention and internal controls: Recognise red flags in invoices, payments, payroll and other transactions, and apply preventive controls and structured investigation methods. – E-invoicing: Understand global requirements, electronic invoice formats and opportunities to automate accounts payable and receivable. – Financial reporting ethics: Work through accounting judgments, estimates and ethical dilemmas using practical cases and decision-making tools. My teaching draws on 30 years of experience in accounting, finance leadership, internal and external audit, and transformation, including roles at Big4 firms, DELL, SSE and TOMRA. I am a Fellow of ACCA (FCCA) and the founder of E-LITE Consulting and RSAgile.

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