Scope of our activities

Our work spans all direct and indirect costs, goods for resale, occupational property costs and VAT, and is designed to be low impact and non-intrusive. We work across all business sectors including manufacturing, finance, IT, retail, not-for-profit and professional services. We ensure that our work has no adverse impact on the client/supplier relationship, and we only contact suppliers once our client has given specific approval to do so.

Validating Controls

TA recognises that in most organisations the Accounts Payable function operates at 99.9% efficiency and maintains rigorous control over the supplier payments process. However, the remaining 0.1% can still represent a significant amount of money. At one client, TA was requested to perform a "second pass" validating the work performed by another consultancy, the first consultancy was confident that they had exhausted all possible overpayments: TA has recovered over £8 million and is still finding more!

Core Contingency-Fee Services

Our historic cost recovery portfolio includes:

- Identification and recovery of duplicate and overpayments
- Contract compliance
- Occupational property cost analysis and recovery
- Unclaimed Input VAT
- Identification and recovery of duplicate payments between corporate procurement cards and accounts payable
Fraud and Risk Profiling

With an unparalleled understanding of fraud, data and IT we offer data mining and fraud and risk profiling solutions to FTSE 100 companies, and both central and local government. Typically reviews identify bogus suppliers; ghost employees; tendering fraud; employee breaches of internal authorisation controls; and inappropriate expenditure on corporate credit procurement cards. Profiling includes comparisons to both internal and external databases such as HM Treasury's list of Sanctioned Organisations.


TA believes in providing information that will empower its clients to make better purchasing decisions and fewer mistakes by understanding its own purchasing and procurement data. We achieve this by providing a series of value added management reports at two key stages:


Stage 1:

Shortly after the project has started and data acquisition and validation has taken place, TA will provide a CD containing five comprehensive groups of reports. In addition TA will perform an independent validation of UK vendor addresses against the Royal Mail's Postal Address file to establish a baseline of data integrity. A risk summary will be circulated to senior management identifying any vendors which exhibit multiple risk profiles together with a recommended course of action.


Stage 2:

At the completion of the project, TA will provide a closing report summarising why duplicate payments took place and lessons learned.