Catching Split Invoices (The Threshold Slicing Bypass)

[ The Symptom

"Our managers are splitting big purchase bills into multiple smaller invoices under $2,500 so they don't have to send them to the executive team for approval. How do we spot this?"

[ The Reality & Truth

The Layman's Reality

To maintain control, most businesses require executive approval for purchases above a set limit (DoA limits). Employees and vendors frequently slice high-value bills into consecutive, smaller invoices to stay under those limits, executing unapproved shadow spend without triggering internal controls.

[ The VALZOX Intercept

We deploy Workflow 10 (BigQuery Consecutive Sub-Threshold Slicing). The engine executes a nightly, chronological sliding-window pattern recognition query across the accounts payable table to isolate and flag consecutive sub-threshold transactions from the same merchant within a strict 10-day window.