Only 10 percent of travelers are responsible for
all the fraud committed within any one organization, according to Oversight.
The expense analytics company analyzed 98 million expense report items from clients
whose 2016 revenue totaled more than $1 billion each. The study covered 600,000
travelers, whose 2016 spend totaled $11.1 billion. The report drilled down to
find that a quarter of the fraud is committed by only 0.4 percent of employees.
"There's a relatively small number of people that you have to worry about,"
Oversight CEO Patrick Taylor said. "So if you want to reduce your high-risk
activity by 25 percent, you just need to straighten out 0.4 percent of your travelers."