The document summarizes the results of a survey on travel and expense management trends for 2014. Key findings include:
- Over half of companies spent more on business travel in 2013 than 2012, and nearly half expect a slight increase in travel spending in 2014.
- Cloud/web-based expense solutions saw a large rise in adoption from 2013 to 2014, increasing from 35% to 44% of organizations, while pen and paper saw a decline.
- Larger enterprises have shifted more towards cloud/web-based systems, while small businesses still rely more on excel/spreadsheets and pen and paper.
How Automated T&E Expense Management Removes Barriers to Company GrowthAshley Emery
An eighteen-year study on the impact of business travel found that every dollar a company invests in T&E spending returns an average of $9.50 in revenue and $2.90 profit. While this data offers a clear and compelling reason to invest in business travel, many organizations are seeing their growth opportunities dashed by inefficient expense reporting and employee reimbursement processes. Now, an insightful new webinar from Accountex and Certify identifies the common expense management pitfalls that can cost you money and hold your company back. Plus, learn more about today’s top business travel and expense technology trends among small to mid-sized U.S. companies.
Discover how your company can maximize every business travel dollar. Topics include:
Common expense reporting mistakes that erode productivity and profits
The hidden and average expense report processing costs
Calculating lost productivity and lost opportunity among staff
U.S. business travel trends and T&E spending benchmarks
Top expense management technologies used by small and midsized business
T&E Management: How to Improve Control, Compliance and ProcessesAshley Emery
Join us as we review the results of our annual expense management survey, providing benchmarks for your company’s travel and entertainment (T&E) management processes. We will discuss how to alleviate the top pain points in T&E management, including: the untimely submission of expense reports, inefficient processes, and lack of adherence to company travel policies. In this live 60-minute event, learn how top finance professionals are leveraging technology in conjunction with procedural best practices to improve control, policy compliance and overall processes.
Leveraging New Technology to Simplify Expense Report Management for Employee ...Ashley Emery
See the current travel and entertainment expense management practices used by leading finance professionals and organizations in the U.S. See how finance professionals are leveraging technology to drive down travel and entertainment (T&E) costs and increase visibility into employee spend.
Travel and Entertainment Expense Management Trends for 2016Ashley Emery
Certify recently surveyed more than 500 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals from outside of its customer base to uncover the top trends and best practices in expense management today. Find out what other small, midsized and enterprise businesses like yours are doing to navigate the complex expense reporting process, streamline workflow, and increase spending visibility and control.
Learn more about:
• T&E expense spending benchmarks by category and average amount
• Common expense management challenges and expected benefits
• The factors and estimated costs to process an individual expense report
• Types of systems and processes currently used for expense management
• What it takes to achieve a return on investment with a new system
Taking control of employee spending business travel and expense management tr...Ashley Emery
Find out the latest business travel trends and how they’re driving the purchase decisions and preferences of your employees on the road. Plus, learn how automation improves the expense reporting process for employees and accountants with commentary from Teri Tocash, AP Manager for CBC Companies.
How Technologies like Certify and Uber Are Transforming Modern Business TravelAshley Emery
Certify and ride-hailing leader Uber bring you the latest data-driven insights and technology trends shaping the experiences and purchase behaviors of the modern business traveler. This webinar also includes a live product demonstration of the Uber for Business auto-expense feature integrated with the Certify Mobile expense reporting app.
Taming the Travel & Entertainment Expense Beast: Benchmarks & Best PracticesAshley Emery
Travel and entertainment—second only to payroll as the largest business expense—is becoming increasingly more difficult to control as companies expand across borders and grow through acquisitions. Discover how companies are leveraging technology in conjunction with procedural best practices to remove common T&E headaches including: the untimely submission of expense reports, lost receipts, inefficient processes and paperwork relative to reviewing and approving expense reports and ensuring adherence to company travel policies.
2015 T&E Expense Benchmarking: Are Your Employees Splurging on the Company DimeAshley Emery
Travel and entertainment—second only to payroll as the largest business expense—is becoming increasingly more difficult to control as companies expand across borders and grow through acquisitions. Therefore effective budgeting, planning, and management of T&E expenses is critical for companies of all sizes in 2015 and beyond. How does your company’s overall Travel and Entertainment spend, and spend within key categories, compare with other companies? How are companies leveraging automation to better understand and control how employees are spending the company dime? Unfortunately, benchmarks for overall T&E spend and key T&E spend within each categories are all but impossible to find.
How Automated T&E Expense Management Removes Barriers to Company GrowthAshley Emery
An eighteen-year study on the impact of business travel found that every dollar a company invests in T&E spending returns an average of $9.50 in revenue and $2.90 profit. While this data offers a clear and compelling reason to invest in business travel, many organizations are seeing their growth opportunities dashed by inefficient expense reporting and employee reimbursement processes. Now, an insightful new webinar from Accountex and Certify identifies the common expense management pitfalls that can cost you money and hold your company back. Plus, learn more about today’s top business travel and expense technology trends among small to mid-sized U.S. companies.
Discover how your company can maximize every business travel dollar. Topics include:
Common expense reporting mistakes that erode productivity and profits
The hidden and average expense report processing costs
Calculating lost productivity and lost opportunity among staff
U.S. business travel trends and T&E spending benchmarks
Top expense management technologies used by small and midsized business
T&E Management: How to Improve Control, Compliance and ProcessesAshley Emery
Join us as we review the results of our annual expense management survey, providing benchmarks for your company’s travel and entertainment (T&E) management processes. We will discuss how to alleviate the top pain points in T&E management, including: the untimely submission of expense reports, inefficient processes, and lack of adherence to company travel policies. In this live 60-minute event, learn how top finance professionals are leveraging technology in conjunction with procedural best practices to improve control, policy compliance and overall processes.
Leveraging New Technology to Simplify Expense Report Management for Employee ...Ashley Emery
See the current travel and entertainment expense management practices used by leading finance professionals and organizations in the U.S. See how finance professionals are leveraging technology to drive down travel and entertainment (T&E) costs and increase visibility into employee spend.
Travel and Entertainment Expense Management Trends for 2016Ashley Emery
Certify recently surveyed more than 500 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals from outside of its customer base to uncover the top trends and best practices in expense management today. Find out what other small, midsized and enterprise businesses like yours are doing to navigate the complex expense reporting process, streamline workflow, and increase spending visibility and control.
Learn more about:
• T&E expense spending benchmarks by category and average amount
• Common expense management challenges and expected benefits
• The factors and estimated costs to process an individual expense report
• Types of systems and processes currently used for expense management
• What it takes to achieve a return on investment with a new system
Taking control of employee spending business travel and expense management tr...Ashley Emery
Find out the latest business travel trends and how they’re driving the purchase decisions and preferences of your employees on the road. Plus, learn how automation improves the expense reporting process for employees and accountants with commentary from Teri Tocash, AP Manager for CBC Companies.
How Technologies like Certify and Uber Are Transforming Modern Business TravelAshley Emery
Certify and ride-hailing leader Uber bring you the latest data-driven insights and technology trends shaping the experiences and purchase behaviors of the modern business traveler. This webinar also includes a live product demonstration of the Uber for Business auto-expense feature integrated with the Certify Mobile expense reporting app.
Taming the Travel & Entertainment Expense Beast: Benchmarks & Best PracticesAshley Emery
Travel and entertainment—second only to payroll as the largest business expense—is becoming increasingly more difficult to control as companies expand across borders and grow through acquisitions. Discover how companies are leveraging technology in conjunction with procedural best practices to remove common T&E headaches including: the untimely submission of expense reports, lost receipts, inefficient processes and paperwork relative to reviewing and approving expense reports and ensuring adherence to company travel policies.
2015 T&E Expense Benchmarking: Are Your Employees Splurging on the Company DimeAshley Emery
Travel and entertainment—second only to payroll as the largest business expense—is becoming increasingly more difficult to control as companies expand across borders and grow through acquisitions. Therefore effective budgeting, planning, and management of T&E expenses is critical for companies of all sizes in 2015 and beyond. How does your company’s overall Travel and Entertainment spend, and spend within key categories, compare with other companies? How are companies leveraging automation to better understand and control how employees are spending the company dime? Unfortunately, benchmarks for overall T&E spend and key T&E spend within each categories are all but impossible to find.
A Guide to Effective Expense Management Strategies for 2015Ashley Emery
The shift to on-line expense management software is here, with more than 80% of companies indicating they plan to make the switch within the next 18 months. Yet although many companies intend to automate their manual expense management processes, they still need to justify the investment in doing so. That begs a crucial question for finance executives: What are the tangible benefits of automating expense management?
During this Webcast, we will review the findings of Certify's 2015 Annual Expense Management Outlook survey and what the findings mean for finance leaders. We will also describe how you can benchmark your expense management processes relative to those of other companies. And we will share examples that illustrate why companies of all sizes have come to recognize that expense management in particular lends itself best to automation.
Five Expense Management Strategies That Save Time and Money While Banishing S...Ashley Emery
As accounting professionals and controllers are increasingly pressured to reduce costs and do more with fewer resources, expense management presents a significant opportunity to save both time and money in a number of ways. Find out how organizations today are managing the latest T&E expense spending, technology and business travel trends. Plus, learn how companies are using automation to streamline the expense reporting process, increase efficiency and productivity, and better control employee spending.
Topics covered include:
Banish timely spreadsheets and improve employee satisfaction, for good
Annual T&E expense spending trends and benchmarks by category
Top expense management challenges and goals for improvement
How to Identify the nearly 20% of out of policy company T&E’s
How mobile expense reporting to reduce processing costs by up to 65%
Ways to automate policy enforcement and improve compliance rates
T&E Management: Comparing spreadsheets with expense report automation Ashley Emery
From receipts to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet templates, travel and entertainment expense reporting is historically rooted in manual, paper-based processes. However, for companies of a certain size or with certain reporting and operational requirements, paper and spreadsheets may not offer everything these organizations need in an expense management solution. Today, T&E automation software can help lower processing costs, improve control over spending, increase travel policy compliance and much more. Join Certify for this insightful live webinar comparing the pros and cons of manual, paper-based reporting processes with a fully automated expense management system.
Expense Reporting Strategies, Trends and Technologies for 2016Ashley Emery
Accounting and finance professionals are increasingly pressured to lower company costs, often with reduced budgets that limit access to the latest technology resources. Now, more businesses are turning to their travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management programs for improved spending control and labor-saving efficiencies. A recent nationwide survey of more than 500 CFOs, controllers, and accountants reveals key strategies, trends, and technologies that U.S. companies are using in 2016 to measurably reduce costs, improve T&E policy compliance, and effectively do more with less.
New Technologies and Best Practices in Expense Management: Insights to Drive ...Ashley Emery
More than 80% of companies polled indicate they plan to make the switch to online expense management software within the next 18 months. While leading finance professionals are moving their manual processes to the cloud, what are the real benefits of switching to these automated systems? Implementing company-wide software is no easy task. How are these Fortune 500 companies (with thousands of employees) migrating to these new technologies?
Join us as we review the results of Certify’s Expense Management Outlook 2014 survey; benchmark your company’s travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management processes, pain points, and use of technology in helping to tame T&E expenses; and discover how T&E management automation is delivering return on investment (ROI) to companies of all sizes.
T&E Expense Spending and Automation Technology Trends for 2016Ashley Emery
The average U.S. company budgets between 6 and 12 percent of total annual revenues for travel and entertainment expenses. Faced with rising costs and added responsibility for the bottom line, today’s accounting professionals are increasingly turning to automation to streamline the expense management process and better control spending across a number of important functions. This webinar will provide new insight into the latest business travel expense and technology trends. Plus, learn how companies of every size are leveraging automation to improve internal spend management procedures for accounts payables and employee-initiated expenses.
Topics covered include:
Annual T&E expense spending trends and category benchmarks
Top spend and expense management challenges reported by U.S. businesses
Most-wanted technologies for improved efficiency, control and visibility
How process automation can improve employee productivity by 29%
Six strategies to automate expense management and control spending
Expense Management Strategies to Maximize ROI in 2016Ashley Emery
Advancements in automation continue to streamline the expense reporting process, and with it further reducing the time it takes for many companies to realize the return on investment from a new system. Join us for an informative hour-long webinar with data analysis from leading research organizations and more than 400 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals to identify best practices in expense management today. You will also hear from a company that uses a fully automated reporting solution about how the system quickly delivers not just ROI, but better compliance with T&E policy, increased productivity and efficiency, and greater employee satisfaction.
Travel & Expense Management Trends for 2013Ashley Emery
During the live event, we will analyze and discuss the responses from the 2013 Annual Travel and Expense Management Survey, compiled from like-minded finance professionals from all sized organizations.
Key Takeaways:
The key difference between expense management processes of small business and enterprise organizations
The shift to cloud based systems and the driving forces behind the switch
Get connected: How integrating accounting, HR, travel and expense systems improve efficiency, lower costs & more
The largest areas for improving the expense management processes
Top financial pressures and pain points and how these differ between company size
Expense Management: Best Practices and Benchmarking for 2015 Ashley Emery
Travel and Entertainment (T&E) expenses—second only to payroll as the largest business expense—are becoming increasingly more difficult to control as companies expand across borders and grow through acquisitions. Therefore, effective budgeting, planning, and management of T&E expenses is critical for companies of all sizes in 2015 and beyond.
How does your company’s overall T&E spending, as well as spending within key categories, compare with other companies? How are companies leveraging automation to better understand and control how employees are spending the company dime? Join us for an hour-long discussion about the best practices to reduce T&E spending and simplify expense management processes in 2015.
Uncovering the Employee T&E Spend Trends of 2017Ashley Emery
Do your employees have bad habits when it comes to travel spend? Do you wonder if there are areas where simple modifications to your policy could reduce costs? It can be difficult to spot patterns in employee spend behavior, especially when the expense reporting process is largely manual. This webinar will shed light on what is often a murky, poorly controlled area of the budget.
Featuring the latest survey data from PayStream Advisors and Certify, you’ll learn:
Expense management automation adoption and usage trends
Benchmark travel spending by category
Policy enforcement practices
Top drivers for expense management improvement initiatives
How to Gain Control, Reduce Fraud and Increase Process Efficiency in the Mode...Ashley Emery
Join us as we discuss how to alleviate the top pain points in travel and expense management, including: the untimely submission of expense reports, lack of adherence to company policies that can lead to fraud , and inefficient submission, review and approval processes. This live 60-minute event will show you how top finance professionals are leveraging the latest technology and procedural best practices to streamline their travel and expense management programs.
Travel & Expense Management 2015: Strategies to control T&E spending and impr...Ashley Emery
Second only to payroll, travel and expense spending accounts for 10% - 12% of the total annual budget in most companies and organizations. With so much at stake a sound T&E management program is to essential the bottom line. But how can accounting and finance professionals be sure to employ the best, most effective approaches to managing costs?
Topics include an in depth review of:
The key T&E management trends that support the need for greater control
Tools to streamline process, reduce fraud and minimize employee errors
How automation can simplify T&E management and improve policy compliance
2017 Travel and Entertainment Expense Management Trends: Eliminating Ineffici...Ashley Emery
A new survey of more than 600 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals identifies the top trends and approaches to expense management for today’s small, midsized and enterprise businesses. Learn what other leading companies are doing to overcome their T&E expense challenges and leverage findings from the survey to improve expense reporting at your company.
Five Reasons Not to Use Excel Spreadsheets for Expense ReportingAshley Emery
Excel is an amazingly powerful tool that’s rightfully earned the adoration of accountants and finance professionals everywhere. However, anyone who has ever tried to use Excel spreadsheets for T&E expense management knows its limitations, especially at scale. Today, automation can help lower processing costs, improve control over spending, increase travel policy compliance and much more.
This webinar will discuss how the world of business travel and expense management has evolved beyond Excel and manual, paper-based T&E reporting processes. We will discuss best practices and real world examples of how automation of T&E can dramatically lower T&E processing costs, reduce mistakes, and streamline reporting and oversight.
Leading trends in travel and entertainment expense management: The finance pr...Ashley Emery
Certify recently surveyed more than 500 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals from outside of its customer base to uncover the top trends and best practices in expense management today. Find out what other small, midsized and enterprise businesses like yours are doing to navigate the complex expense reporting process, streamline workflow, and increase spending visibility and control.
Learn more about:
• Annual T&E expense spending by category and company size
• Common expense management challenges and expected benefits
• The factors and estimated costs to process an individual expense report
• Types of systems and processes currently used for expense management
• What it takes to achieve a return on investment with a new system
Delivering earnings predictability, owning corporate governance, and supporting productivity across the enterprise are among the top challenges faced by financial professionals. Where do financial professionals even begin defining a strategy to embrace these opportunities? The answer to that question may raise more than a few eyebrows: best-in-class travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management
KWD Web Management Report 2014 (open resource)Comprend
We asked web managers and others responsible for
corporate websites about the challenges they face in 2014
and what prioritises they will focus on. 116 professionals
from 96 companies in 18 countries participated in the
survey. 42% of the companies that took part in the survey
are in Financial Times’ Europe 500. These are our findings
from the survey.
A Guide to Effective Expense Management Strategies for 2015Ashley Emery
The shift to on-line expense management software is here, with more than 80% of companies indicating they plan to make the switch within the next 18 months. Yet although many companies intend to automate their manual expense management processes, they still need to justify the investment in doing so. That begs a crucial question for finance executives: What are the tangible benefits of automating expense management?
During this Webcast, we will review the findings of Certify's 2015 Annual Expense Management Outlook survey and what the findings mean for finance leaders. We will also describe how you can benchmark your expense management processes relative to those of other companies. And we will share examples that illustrate why companies of all sizes have come to recognize that expense management in particular lends itself best to automation.
Five Expense Management Strategies That Save Time and Money While Banishing S...Ashley Emery
As accounting professionals and controllers are increasingly pressured to reduce costs and do more with fewer resources, expense management presents a significant opportunity to save both time and money in a number of ways. Find out how organizations today are managing the latest T&E expense spending, technology and business travel trends. Plus, learn how companies are using automation to streamline the expense reporting process, increase efficiency and productivity, and better control employee spending.
Topics covered include:
Banish timely spreadsheets and improve employee satisfaction, for good
Annual T&E expense spending trends and benchmarks by category
Top expense management challenges and goals for improvement
How to Identify the nearly 20% of out of policy company T&E’s
How mobile expense reporting to reduce processing costs by up to 65%
Ways to automate policy enforcement and improve compliance rates
T&E Management: Comparing spreadsheets with expense report automation Ashley Emery
From receipts to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet templates, travel and entertainment expense reporting is historically rooted in manual, paper-based processes. However, for companies of a certain size or with certain reporting and operational requirements, paper and spreadsheets may not offer everything these organizations need in an expense management solution. Today, T&E automation software can help lower processing costs, improve control over spending, increase travel policy compliance and much more. Join Certify for this insightful live webinar comparing the pros and cons of manual, paper-based reporting processes with a fully automated expense management system.
Expense Reporting Strategies, Trends and Technologies for 2016Ashley Emery
Accounting and finance professionals are increasingly pressured to lower company costs, often with reduced budgets that limit access to the latest technology resources. Now, more businesses are turning to their travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management programs for improved spending control and labor-saving efficiencies. A recent nationwide survey of more than 500 CFOs, controllers, and accountants reveals key strategies, trends, and technologies that U.S. companies are using in 2016 to measurably reduce costs, improve T&E policy compliance, and effectively do more with less.
New Technologies and Best Practices in Expense Management: Insights to Drive ...Ashley Emery
More than 80% of companies polled indicate they plan to make the switch to online expense management software within the next 18 months. While leading finance professionals are moving their manual processes to the cloud, what are the real benefits of switching to these automated systems? Implementing company-wide software is no easy task. How are these Fortune 500 companies (with thousands of employees) migrating to these new technologies?
Join us as we review the results of Certify’s Expense Management Outlook 2014 survey; benchmark your company’s travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management processes, pain points, and use of technology in helping to tame T&E expenses; and discover how T&E management automation is delivering return on investment (ROI) to companies of all sizes.
T&E Expense Spending and Automation Technology Trends for 2016Ashley Emery
The average U.S. company budgets between 6 and 12 percent of total annual revenues for travel and entertainment expenses. Faced with rising costs and added responsibility for the bottom line, today’s accounting professionals are increasingly turning to automation to streamline the expense management process and better control spending across a number of important functions. This webinar will provide new insight into the latest business travel expense and technology trends. Plus, learn how companies of every size are leveraging automation to improve internal spend management procedures for accounts payables and employee-initiated expenses.
Topics covered include:
Annual T&E expense spending trends and category benchmarks
Top spend and expense management challenges reported by U.S. businesses
Most-wanted technologies for improved efficiency, control and visibility
How process automation can improve employee productivity by 29%
Six strategies to automate expense management and control spending
Expense Management Strategies to Maximize ROI in 2016Ashley Emery
Advancements in automation continue to streamline the expense reporting process, and with it further reducing the time it takes for many companies to realize the return on investment from a new system. Join us for an informative hour-long webinar with data analysis from leading research organizations and more than 400 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals to identify best practices in expense management today. You will also hear from a company that uses a fully automated reporting solution about how the system quickly delivers not just ROI, but better compliance with T&E policy, increased productivity and efficiency, and greater employee satisfaction.
Travel & Expense Management Trends for 2013Ashley Emery
During the live event, we will analyze and discuss the responses from the 2013 Annual Travel and Expense Management Survey, compiled from like-minded finance professionals from all sized organizations.
Key Takeaways:
The key difference between expense management processes of small business and enterprise organizations
The shift to cloud based systems and the driving forces behind the switch
Get connected: How integrating accounting, HR, travel and expense systems improve efficiency, lower costs & more
The largest areas for improving the expense management processes
Top financial pressures and pain points and how these differ between company size
Expense Management: Best Practices and Benchmarking for 2015 Ashley Emery
Travel and Entertainment (T&E) expenses—second only to payroll as the largest business expense—are becoming increasingly more difficult to control as companies expand across borders and grow through acquisitions. Therefore, effective budgeting, planning, and management of T&E expenses is critical for companies of all sizes in 2015 and beyond.
How does your company’s overall T&E spending, as well as spending within key categories, compare with other companies? How are companies leveraging automation to better understand and control how employees are spending the company dime? Join us for an hour-long discussion about the best practices to reduce T&E spending and simplify expense management processes in 2015.
Uncovering the Employee T&E Spend Trends of 2017Ashley Emery
Do your employees have bad habits when it comes to travel spend? Do you wonder if there are areas where simple modifications to your policy could reduce costs? It can be difficult to spot patterns in employee spend behavior, especially when the expense reporting process is largely manual. This webinar will shed light on what is often a murky, poorly controlled area of the budget.
Featuring the latest survey data from PayStream Advisors and Certify, you’ll learn:
Expense management automation adoption and usage trends
Benchmark travel spending by category
Policy enforcement practices
Top drivers for expense management improvement initiatives
How to Gain Control, Reduce Fraud and Increase Process Efficiency in the Mode...Ashley Emery
Join us as we discuss how to alleviate the top pain points in travel and expense management, including: the untimely submission of expense reports, lack of adherence to company policies that can lead to fraud , and inefficient submission, review and approval processes. This live 60-minute event will show you how top finance professionals are leveraging the latest technology and procedural best practices to streamline their travel and expense management programs.
Travel & Expense Management 2015: Strategies to control T&E spending and impr...Ashley Emery
Second only to payroll, travel and expense spending accounts for 10% - 12% of the total annual budget in most companies and organizations. With so much at stake a sound T&E management program is to essential the bottom line. But how can accounting and finance professionals be sure to employ the best, most effective approaches to managing costs?
Topics include an in depth review of:
The key T&E management trends that support the need for greater control
Tools to streamline process, reduce fraud and minimize employee errors
How automation can simplify T&E management and improve policy compliance
2017 Travel and Entertainment Expense Management Trends: Eliminating Ineffici...Ashley Emery
A new survey of more than 600 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals identifies the top trends and approaches to expense management for today’s small, midsized and enterprise businesses. Learn what other leading companies are doing to overcome their T&E expense challenges and leverage findings from the survey to improve expense reporting at your company.
Five Reasons Not to Use Excel Spreadsheets for Expense ReportingAshley Emery
Excel is an amazingly powerful tool that’s rightfully earned the adoration of accountants and finance professionals everywhere. However, anyone who has ever tried to use Excel spreadsheets for T&E expense management knows its limitations, especially at scale. Today, automation can help lower processing costs, improve control over spending, increase travel policy compliance and much more.
This webinar will discuss how the world of business travel and expense management has evolved beyond Excel and manual, paper-based T&E reporting processes. We will discuss best practices and real world examples of how automation of T&E can dramatically lower T&E processing costs, reduce mistakes, and streamline reporting and oversight.
Leading trends in travel and entertainment expense management: The finance pr...Ashley Emery
Certify recently surveyed more than 500 CFOs, controllers and accounting professionals from outside of its customer base to uncover the top trends and best practices in expense management today. Find out what other small, midsized and enterprise businesses like yours are doing to navigate the complex expense reporting process, streamline workflow, and increase spending visibility and control.
Learn more about:
• Annual T&E expense spending by category and company size
• Common expense management challenges and expected benefits
• The factors and estimated costs to process an individual expense report
• Types of systems and processes currently used for expense management
• What it takes to achieve a return on investment with a new system
Delivering earnings predictability, owning corporate governance, and supporting productivity across the enterprise are among the top challenges faced by financial professionals. Where do financial professionals even begin defining a strategy to embrace these opportunities? The answer to that question may raise more than a few eyebrows: best-in-class travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management
KWD Web Management Report 2014 (open resource)Comprend
We asked web managers and others responsible for
corporate websites about the challenges they face in 2014
and what prioritises they will focus on. 116 professionals
from 96 companies in 18 countries participated in the
survey. 42% of the companies that took part in the survey
are in Financial Times’ Europe 500. These are our findings
from the survey.
Expense Management in 2018: Planning for Success | December 19, 2017Ashley Emery
When it comes to company expense management priorities, is your team prepared for the year ahead? Join us and find out what more than 600 finance and accounting professionals identified as their top employee-initiated and travel and entertainment expense challenges, pain points and pressures to succeed in 2017.
Both buying and selling have changed radically over the last few years. Companies without a true differentiation in the market place are finding themselves in more price driven situations dramatically impacting their profitability. Find out how your sales force can differentiate you while you work on defining a business strategy that will tell customers why they should do business with you.
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Travel and expense is a notoriously difficult operating cost to effectively manage that can severely hinder employee productivity and spend visibility. Join Mark Brousseau to learn how analytics and insights from trends can directly improve your overall T&E process for everyone’s benefit.
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Today’s shopper assumes you know who they are, what they want, how they like to shop and that you will be able to follow, service and support them whenever and however they like. Overseas retailers, the media and even movies and TV have combined to change the expectations of today’s shoppers who are now after newness, experiences, meaningful interaction, on the spot advice and support.
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Dobiquity is a cloud-based platform that helps hospitality and tourism enterprises to improve business performance by replacing inefficient manual processes with user-friendly web and mobile apps. Our first three apps were launched in May 2015 and allow operators to enhance the quality of the customer experience. Additional apps to help manage important tasks such as On-the-Job Training, Stocktaking etc. will be launched regularly so the suite of apps will continuously expand. Each app digitises an important business task and also provides comprehensive reporting features to aid performance measurement and guide decision-making.
Exploring results from the 2017 T&E Expense Management Trends Survey, learn from the experience of businesses like yours and discover how you can streamline workflow, increase spending visibility and control, and manage the complex expense reporting process with ease.
Results from the 2014 Conversion Rate Optimization Survey.
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Expense Management in 2018: Planning for Success | December 19, 2017Ashley Emery
When it comes to company expense management priorities, is your team prepared for the year ahead? Join us and find out what more than 600 finance and accounting professionals identified as their top employee-initiated and travel and entertainment expense challenges, pain points and pressures to succeed in 2017. You’ll also learn the strategies and technologies they’re using to get ahead in 2018 by streamlining inefficient processes, reducing hassles, and saving time and money over spreadsheets and manual paper-based reporting programs.
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Effective T&E Expense Management: A Million Dollar Value PropositionAshley Emery
Join us to discover how companies of all sizes are leveraging technology to establish visibility, benchmark costs and expenses,
and establish controls that lower expense report processing costs, mitigate fraud, fuel more effective T&E spend, and
impact productivity across the enterprise. We will construct a million dollar business case for T&E expense management
done right and empower you to identify specific opportunities to improve T&E expense management at your company.
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Travel, credit card and expense management programs are easily combined, thereby streamlining expense
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What you'll be able to tell your boss after reading this:
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* Targeting and performance are key drivers of adoption today, competitive dynamics less so.
* Measurement of results, data integration, site quality, brand safety, and resource limits top issues inhibiting programmatic today.
* How programmatic is managed today varies immensely.
* Programmatic is forcing organizations to reallocate their resources.
* Tactical issues such as transparency, fraud, availability of quality inventory, cost, and ROI are keeping marketers up at night.
* Programmatic spend will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.
* Programmatic is more than display.
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Travel
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
In
2008,
Bob
and
his
team
launched
the
Cer&fy
product
featuring
mobile
technology
and
web-‐based
automa&on.
Cer&fy
has
accelerated
its
posi&on
to
become
the
second
largest
provider
of
expense
repor&ng
soRware
in
North
America.
Robert
Neveu
President
&
Co-‐founder
Speaker
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
• Certify is an online travel & expense
management software provider
• Over 15 million transactions passed
through Certify in 2013 from business
professionals all over the US
• Serving clients globally in 64
languages, from small organizations to
Fortune 500 companies
• Featured in USA Today, CNN, NY
Times
About Certify
About
Cer7fy
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
How
CFOs
are
Employing
New
Technologies
to
Increase
Insight
and
Drive
Growth
Learn
the
latest
trends
in
travel
and
expense
management
soRware
for
2014.
Presented
by
Cer&fy,
Travel
and
Expense
Made
Easy.
Today’s Topic
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
About the Data
• Second
Annual
Expense
Management
Trends
Survey
• Conducted
February,
2014
• Total
Respondents:
137
• Audience:
• 18%
Small
Business,
less
than
50
employees
• 48%
Mid-‐sized
Business,
51-‐999
employees
• 34%
Large
Business,
1,000+
employees
• Loca7on:
• 6%
Interna&onal
• 94%
United
States
of
America
• Demographics:
• 56%
C-‐Level
or
above
Finance
professionals
• 34%
Controller,
Accountant,
or
Accounts
Payable
• 10%
Other
(Office
Manager,
Travel
Manager,
etc.)
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Annual Spend on T&E
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
<
$50k
$50k
-‐
$499k
$500k
-‐
$999k
$1mm
-‐
$5mm
>
$5mm
Annual Spend on T&E
Small
Business
Mid-‐sized
Company
Large
Enterprise
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Travel Spend 2013 vs. 2012
• 58%
of
all
companies
spent
more
on
business
travel
in
2013
compared
to
2012
• 70%
of
Enterprise
companies
spent
more
on
business
travel
in
2013
compared
to
2012
• Only
12%
of
companies
spent
less
in
2013
on
business
travel
than
in
2012
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Travel Spend in 2014
• 49%
of
all
businesses
forecast
a
slight
increase
in
business
travel
spend
in
2014
• Mid-‐sized
companies
forecast
largest
increase
in
business
travel
spend
in
2014,
with
14%
forecas&ng
a
significant
increase
• Small
businesses
only
forecast
a
4%
increase,
and
large
enterprises
only
forecast
an
11%
increase
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Travel Booking Process
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
How
do
organiza7ons
currently
manage
their
travel
and
expense
repor7ng?
Poll Question
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
44%
29%
18%
5%
4%
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Excel/Spreadsheets
ERP
Home-‐Grown
Pen
&
Paper
Expense Management Process
How do organizations currently manage their
travel and expense reporting?
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
44%
29%
18%
5%
4%
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Excel/Spreadsheets
ERP
Home
Grown
Pen
&
Paper
Expense Management Process
How do organizations currently manage their
travel and expense reporting?
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
44%
29%
18%
5%
4%
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Excel/Spreadsheets
ERP
Home-‐Grown
Pen
&
Paper
2013 to 2014 Comparison
35%
35%
12%
7%
11%
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Excel/
Spreadsheets
ERP
Home
Grown
Pen
&
Paper
2013 2014
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
The Divide Between Small Business & Enterprise
Pen
&
Paper
Excel/
Spreadsheets
Home
Grown
ERP
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Pen
&
Paper
Excel/Spreadsheets
Home-‐Grown
ERP
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Pen
&
Paper
Excel/Spreadsheets
Home
Grown
ERP
Cloud/Web-‐Based
Expense Process by Company Size
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
2%
6%
5%
74%
13%
0%
0%
4%
89%
7%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Pen
&
Paper
Excel/Spreadsheets
Home-‐Grown
Cloud/Web-‐Based
ERP
SMB
Enterprise
Within next 2 years, how will companies
manage expense reports?
Future Expense Processes
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Reason for Switching
Driving force before the switch to web-based system
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Reimburse
employees
faster
Improve
employee
compliance
rates
to
corporate
travel
policies
Provide
an
expense
system
accessible
from
anywhere
Simplifying
the
expense
repor&ng
process
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&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
0.00%
20.00%
40.00%
60.00%
80.00%
General
Ledger
Corporate
Credit
Cards
AP
ERP
CRM
Integrations by Company Size
Small
Business
Large
Enterprise
Integrations
Integrations
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Improvements for 2014
Most critical areas to improve in 2014
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&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Top Pressures & Pain Points
T&E Pain Points
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
What
is
the
largest
pain
point
surrounding
expense
management
for
your
organiza7on?
Poll Question
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Reimbursement Times
Reimbursement Timeline (Days)
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Benefits of Cloud Systems
As a result of switching to Web-based expense systems,
your organization has experienced:
45%
46%
49%
54%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Faster
reimbursements
for
employees
Reduced
&me
spent
crea&ng,
approving
and
reimbursing
expense
reports
Reduc&on/elimina&on
of
excel/
spreadsheets
Decreased/elimina&on
of
manual
data
entry
24. www.cer&fy.com
Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
ROI: Switching to Cloud
Time to Recoup Costs
After Switching to a
Cloud-Based System
Small Businesses Report
Fastest ROI
25. www.cer&fy.com
Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Top Features
Must-Have Features From
a Cloud-Based System• #1
must
have
feature
for
2014:
64%
Automa7on
• #1
must
have
feature
in
2013:
53
%
say
Mobile
applica7ons
• Automa7on
grows
14%
in
top
feature
to
look
for
in
a
cloud
expense
system
from
2013
to
2014
• Mobility
&
automa&on
remain
top
two
most
important
features
to
look
for
when
selec&ng
an
expense
vendor
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Summary
• 48%
companies
es&mate
T&E
costs
will
increase
in
2014
• 44%
of
companies
using
cloud-‐expense
systems,
compared
to
38%
using
spreadsheets
or
pen
&
paper
• Largest
pressure:
Reduce
expense
processing
costs
• Largest
pain
points:
Employee’s
failure
to
submit
reports
on
&me
• 75%
of
small
businesses
see
ROI
within
first
year
of
switching
to
cloud
system
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Introducing
a
first
of
its
kind,
Auto-‐Generated
Expense
Reports
with
Cer&fy
ReportExecu&ve™
Cer&fy
ReportExecu&ve™
brings
automa&c
expense
reports
to
your
en&re
company.
1. Scheduled
Company-‐Wide
Automa7c
Expense
Report
Build
Dates
2. Schedule
Reminder
No7fica7ons
for
Employees
3. ReportExecu7veTM
will
automa7cally
build
expense
reports
for
end
users
4. The
user
will
then
be
no7fied
by
email
and
directed
to
review
the
expense
report
and
submit
it
for
approval.
Auto-generated Reports
29. www.cer&fy.com
Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Snap
photos
of
receipts
on-‐the-‐go
and,
using
ReceiptParse,
the
data
is
AutoFilled
and
the
expense
is
synced
to
your
online
Cer&fy
Account
Certify Mobile
30. www.cer&fy.com
Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Receive
Data
Feeds
Automa7cally
with
Cer7fy
• Nightly
data
feeds
from
all
major
credit
card
plaqorms
including;
American
Express,
Visa,
MasterCard,
Discover,
and
Diner’s
Club
• Cer&fy
automa&cally
receives
your
corporate
credit
card
data
in
your
account
in
Cer&fy
• Personal
Credit
Cards
Data Feeds
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
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Travel
&
Expense
Management
Trends
for
2014
Eric Newman
Corporate Controller
Saddle Creek Logistics
500 Employees
Client since 2011
The Solution: Streamlined
Func7onality
Brings
Client
into
Future
of
Expense
Management
• Switched due to slow reimbursements with previous process
and wanted a scalable process with reporting
• Employees now receive reimbursements 5-7 days sooner
• Saving over $40,000 from avoiding duplicate and out-of-policy
payments
• No longer needed fulltime accountant for data entry
“Cer%fy
is
truly
an
intui%ve
and
easy-‐to-‐use
tool,
but
above
all
the
company
is
so
reac%ve
to
correct
or
respond
to
customer
input.”
Certify Case Study