A clever enough cheater will always find a way to cheat, but you can't
make it too easy.
For NY BPO "Connect NY" there was physical verification that each piece
of equipment you bought actually existed somewhere.....whether in the
field or in storage. The auditor seemed satisfied with a list of serial
numbers plus photographs of all the installations. We made it very well
organized for them: "Rectifier A, Backhaul B, and Base Station C are
located at Site X. Here are our installation photos from Site X."
You probably wanted good records of what's installed anyway, and if
someone takes the time to fake all of that, then maybe they deserve
their Ferrari.
Can you think of a project where there was blatant fraud like that? I
can certainly think of times when they made poor product choices, or
ended up with unused equipment due to a design change in the middle of
the project, or they bought 20 of the wrong thing and had to go back and
buy 20 of the correct thing......or something was otherwise screwed up
or mismanaged. I actually can't think of any project where people
bought personal toys (like a Ferrari) with public funds, or any other
type of fraud along those lines. If you saw something like that, I hope
you reported it. I used it as an example of what people would do if
there was no auditing. There is auditing and consequently I don't think
people are doing that.
On 1/30/2020 4:12 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Except that there IS auditing now... and we DO end up with this exact
scenario happening currently. It's not stopping it.
On 1/30/20 4:08 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
I'd rather not stress over audits, but auditing is a necessary evil
IMO. If there were no auditing then there's someone, somewhere who
would buy a Ferrari and supply a fake invoice for rectifiers instead.
I'm sure everyone on this list can think of someone they've dealt
with who ought to have their homework double checked.
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