The title of this blog post might give you the impression that you’re going to be reading a how to get your employer to pay for your entire wedding. Sadly no, this article is about something a little more serious… expense fraud! I recently visited a soon to be Expense8 customer, who told me a story of expense fraud that left me completely astonished! This fraud highlighted major gaps in this company’s culture and in their procedures. The fraud occurred over a 6-month period and involved an
Lucy Kellaway from Financial Times recently wrote an article called ‘Hidden costs of hellish schemes for claiming expenses’. This article deeply resonated with me on many levels! You see, Expense8 is a system developed by an organisation with over 20 years experience in the Expense Management game, and the key message echoed through Lucy’s article is one I hear more often than I enjoy roast dinners. I’d love to take this opportunity to provide Lucy, and many others who were lucky enough to read her article,
User Friendly Software is the New Black If it’s not on the agenda when purchasing new IT systems, it should be! ‘User Friendliness’ focuses on your software product’s intuitiveness, efficiency and simplicity. But user friendliness is more than just simplicity, it’s about saving users time and saving your organisation money! People with less advanced IT knowledge are in my opinion the best people to evaluate if a product is user friendly or not. Their reliance on clear and logical screen design and behavior is far greater
It’s a problem that most organisations suffer from: employees purchasing items that are way out of the company’s Travel & Expense Policy. One of our customers recently told us of an employee, who had been on a business trip to Europe and whilst away he had purchased luxury accommodation for his dog on his corporate credit card. This particular expense was not within company policy, the employee defended himself by explaining that he didn’t know what the expense policy was. So how do we get co-workers and
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