These SAO guides and best practices provide information on wire transfers, ACH payments, credit card programs, and travel expenditures.
Best practices: Sending wire transfers
These best practices can help governments develop strong internal controls to prevent and detect wire transfer fraud. It includes key areas to address in employee training as well as advice to help you establish a verification process to confirm the authenticity of wiring instructions.
Last updated: August 2022
Best practices: ACH electronic payments
These best practices can help governments improve their ACH payment process policies and employee training, establish a verification process, and monitor for unauthorized payee account changes.
Last updated: August 2022
Best Practices: Credit card programs
Credit card programs vary in their nature and size, as does how governments use them—all of which affect the risk of misuse. These best practices can help local governments evaluate their credit card program and related internal controls.
Last updated: July 2019
Best practices: Travel expenditures
These best practices can help governments manage their internal controls over travel expenditures. It includes a list of questions in the appendix for economical travel cost considerations to help reduce misuse of travel reimbursements.
Last updated: July 2019