The document highlights the inefficiencies and costs associated with using free spreadsheet-based expense reporting, emphasizing that it can lead to increased employee time and dissatisfaction. It suggests that switching to cloud-based expense management solutions can reduce processing costs, improve employee productivity, and provide better insights into travel and entertainment spending. Concur is presented as a solution, capable of streamlining expense management and offering valuable data for informed business decisions.

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2. Did you know that it could
be costing you in ways you
never imagined?
Are you using a free spreadsheet
to process your expenses?

3. How much can you save
with cloud-based, mobile
expense reporting?
Let’s Play

4. Are you still buried beneath
paper receipts?
Yes No
If you answered yes, than you’re
losing money right off the bat!
Reduce your processing costs
by 60% with cloud-based
expense reporting.
Processing Costs1

5. Employee Time2
Are your employees spending
hours compiling their manual
expense reports?
Yes No
Your time is valuable. Spend
it on what matters.Recoup over
4.5 hours a month that each
of your employees could be
growing your business.*
*The Aberdeen Group

6. Finance Team’s Time3
Your free expense reports cost your finance team a lot of time spent
on tedious tasks—tracking down receipts and entering data.
Is your finance team spending hours processing expenses?
Yes No

7. Make your finance team up to
50% more efficient by cutting
down on data entry and the
need to chase down receipts.*
*Forrester Research
3 Finance Team’s Time

8. Employee Happiness4
Said no employee, ever.
Your free spreadsheet is costing
your employees happiness,
productivity and maybe even
their sanity.
Do your employees complain
about doing their expenses?
Yes No

9. Make your employees happier
and more productive. Help
them stay motivated to help
grow your business.
Bonus point: Give employees
a mobile app so they can do their
expenses anytime, anywhere.
Achievement Unlocked:
Receipts be gone!
4 Employee Happiness

10. Travel/Entertainment Spending5
Your free expense report costs
you in TE spending (your
second-highest controllable
cost)*, because it doesn’t
give you the info you need to
manage employee spending.
Can you quickly see the data
to help manage spending?
Yes No
*The Aberdeen Group

11. Know how your money is being
spent at any given time, so you
can manage TE spending and
cut costs as needed.
5 Travel/Entertainment Spending

12. Business Opportunities6
That free spreadsheet costs
you in lost revenue because
you can’t see the info you
need to adjust your budget
and take advantage of new
business opportunities.
Can you adjust your budget
based on TE expenditures?
Yes No

13. Get the information you need
when you need it, so you can
make informed business decisions
and jump on opportunities that
come your way.
6 Business Opportunities

14. Compliance7
Your finance team is swimming in a sea of spreadsheets.
They don’t have the time or info to make sure your company’s
records can be easily found and reported to take advantage of all
the applicable tax breaks and credits.
Is your company saving as much as it can?
Yes No

15. Give your finance team the tools
they need to easily find the
data they need to cut your
business taxes and reclaim
value-added tax (VAT).
7 Compliance

16. Coffee $9.76
Supplies $15.24
Airfare $426.53
Report Summary
Receipts
Submit
4-7 Yes answers
Your spreadsheet based expense
reporting is costing you a ton! Ouch!
1-3 Yes answers
Your spreadsheet based expense
reporting is making your employees
unhappy. Time to turn those frowns
upside down!
0 Yes answers
If all of your answers were no, you
must already be using Concur.
Nice work!
Let’s tally up your score...

17. Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and
expense management solutions. By capturing and
reporting on every aspect of TE spend, Concur’s
services provide detailed information to help clients
effectively negotiate with vendors, create budgets
and manage compliance. Trusted by businesses
of all sizes in more than 100 countries, Concur’s
on-demand services process over $50 billion
in TE spend a year—equal to roughly 10 percent
of the world’s TE spend.
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