Manage Your Corporate Credit Card Spend This Christmas

The Christmas season is now upon us! December means many things to many people. For some, it’s a chance to spend time with family and friends, wind down and take it easy. For others, it’s a time to get some serious work done, with an (almost) empty office and less emails/calls than usual making for increased productivity! I for one am the ‘time with family and friends’ kind of guy, while our development team prefer to work over Christmas… when it’s quiet… and no one is bothering

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Think Before You Tap & Go

A Scandalous Expense… For months now I have held this story close to my chest. I have wanted to share this story, and more importantly the learnings, though was uncertain how to communicate it in the right context and debated internally whether it was appropriate to blog about. However, on my recent trip to Perth (pre-approved on my expense8 Pre-trip approval module of course), it got me thinking how common this story is. I’ve often shared this story with others in my Expense Management network and in

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Should Your Organisation Reduce Usage of Credit Cards?

“We are actually looking to reduce the number of cards in the company” I have worked in the finance IT industry long enough to know that different organisations implement processes based on different internal challenges and environmental idiosyncrasies. The purpose of this post is not to suggest that ‘one size fits all’ in finance process terms. Instead, I wish to assert that best practice for accounts payable processing indicates that credit card adoption should be increasing for most organisations – certainly not decreasing.   Procure to Pay

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3 Major Travel & Expense Management Challenges of the Next Ten Years

  Travel and Expense Management has evolved a great deal in the last ten years, with many technological advancements being developed to simplify the overall process. I do believe the next ten years will be even more exciting, with the likes of Google and Apple really starting to drive innovation in the payments sphere, and our company Expense8 heavily focusing on how corporate travel processes can be modernized. Philosophical excitement to the side, various challenges will need to be addressed. Some will be left to the brainy

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