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Basic invoice checks: missing fields and duplicates

Spot the invoices that shouldn't be paid yet: missing information, arithmetic errors and duplicates.

Level
Beginner
Length
About 30 minutes
Contents
3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
Status
Published · updated 1 Oct 2026

Skills you'll practise

  • List the fields a valid supplier invoice needs before payment
  • Identify likely duplicate invoices in a payment queue
  • Check invoice arithmetic and totals
  • Explain why an invoice is held in a short note

Course outline

  1. 1.Invoice checks and duplicatesVideo · 2 min
  2. 2.What a payable invoice needsLesson · 10 min
  3. 3.Supplier statements and reconciliationsLesson · 14 min
  4. 4.Preventing duplicates and checking the payment runLesson · 12 min
  5. 5.Basic invoice checks: missing fields and duplicates: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
  6. 6.Invoice with 'new' bank detailsScenario
  7. 7.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

  • General accounts-payable controls: purchase-order matching, approvals, segregation of duties

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