Health Check Your Expense Processes

RISK!!! Now that I have your attention, allow me to clarify. The integrity of your organisation’s credit card scheme may be at jeopardy, or even worse, the integrity may have already diminished completely. It’s no secret that credit cards represent a significant advancement in the corporate accounts payable sphere. They’re an evolution of corporate spending capability that has both simplified payment processing and empowered employees to act in their jobs with far less red tape than ever thought possible. Unfortunately, nothing is perfect, and corporate credit cards

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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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Kambala’s $364,000 Nightmare

For many of us, 10 years is a long period of time. It’s a long time to be in a relationship, live in one apartment, or answer to a single employer. 10 years can create a sense of entitlement and complacence, which is very much what was running through my mind when I read Fairfax Media’s recent article on Kambala girls’ school’s significant credit card defrauding. Ian MacCulloch, the school’s former business manager, was recently found guilty of spending in excess of $364,000 on 6 Westpac Visa

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