With Traveling Expenses Rising Invest in Simplified Expense Management

Booking corporate travel can be a major hassle for any corporation. But globalization has arrived - any successful business must now be both national and international, operating beyond the bounds of any countries' borders. That means more traveling for your employees - and higher travel budgets for your accounting department.

But Certify's expense reporting software can alleviate many of the complications that accompany budget balancing, whether your total costs are conservative or sky-high. Our mobile applications and tools can even track your expenses on the go, allowing you to log purchases simply by using your smartphone or tablet to take a picture of the receipt. Automating your expense report saves your employees and your business valuable time - it's not just convenient, it's efficient.

An increased reliance on travel One of the most intricate aspects of your businesses accounting is likely your travel expense reporting, and if statistics are to believed, that challenge is only going to get bigger. In their latest study, the Global Business Travel Association found that "Business travel spending should continue to climb through 2013...travel spending for 2013 is now expected to reach $273.3 billion." If projections hold steady, travel expenses will have raised well over 4 percent since 2012. Even when the numbers are adjusted for inflation, travel expense rates have jumped significantly in recent months.

"It's encouraging to see the return and increase of domestic business travel," noted Tad Fordyce, head of Global Commercial Solutions at Visa, Inc, in a quote that accompanied the study. "These increases are positive reinforcements that travelers are regaining confidence in our own economy ... We hope to see these increases have a ripple effect on international travel in key markets in the coming future."

Travel expense reporting made easy with Certify Keeping track of your expenses has never been easier than it is With Certify's Travel Management programs. Our programs are truly "end-to-end," covering each step of the way, from the moment you reach the airport until your back relaxing at home. Certify's comprehensive travel booking applications even helps you book your flights, hotels, and rental cars - all with a few mouse clicks.

With such state of the art tools, business owners can be ensured that they're representatives will be well-prepared for any journey. And they can also keep close tabs on every dollar spent, in real time - Certify updates all of your accounts as soon as the expenses are registered. Employ global expense management today, and make sure all of your excursions - domestic or otherwise - are given the same level of meticulous oversight as your work at home.

School Districts Remain Vigilant in Oversight of Travel Expenses

Public school districts nationwide are enduring some lean economic times, and they're looking to cut costs wherever possible in order to stay afloat. Some have looked to travel expense management as one area where they can trim their budgets - many educators' schedules are jam-packed with business trips, and superintendents are working to shear those itineraries down to just the bare essentials.

One example of this trend comes from Simpson County, Mississippi, where the school board recently approved over $30,000 in travel expenses for a single month. One of the requests, for an extravagant trip to a conference in Las Vegas, asked for $5,000 paid out in advance, including $1,323 for a five-day stay at Caesar's Palace. The requests were ultimately approved by a 3-2 vote, but the preceding contentious debate was a healthy one, according to the Magee Journal.

"We don't rubber-stamp everything they ask for," board president Larry Cockrell told the paper. "We want to make sure it's necessary/"

This is hardly one isolated case. St. Paul, Minnesota also recently had a lengthy discussion of its school board's travel expenses, according to the Pioneer-Press.

In these situations, expense management software can be a tremendous aid to fiscal responsibility. School boards need to new use with taxpayers' money, and software solutions can help monitor every dollar spent.

Upcoming Webinar: Leveraging Technology to Simplify T&E Expense Reporting Processes for Employees and Managers

Join us on Tuesday, July 22nd from 2:00 PM ET – 3:00 PM ET as Certify President and Co-Founder Bob Neveu hosts a webinar on the new technologies CFOs are employing to increase insight and drive growth in their organizations.

Bob will dive into the current travel and entertainment expense management practices used by leading finance professionals and organizations in the US and discuss ways finance professionals are leveraging technology to drive down travel and entertainment costs and increase visibility into employee expenditures.

Participants can look forward to learning about current trends in expense report management, utilization of expense report software to drive policy compliance rates up to 40%, strategies to reduce processing costs by 70% with automated expense solutions, and best practices of T&E automation with Certify’s platform.

Interested participants should register for the webinar early, as there are limited seats for this event. Those not able to make the live event can register and receive a recorded copy by email.

Why Your Company Needs to Use Automated Expense Reporting

For so many years the innovation of the technology in the market plays a big role in any aspect of our life. Such as in the world business technology place a big role in every transactions that happen with the use of the latest technology almost the medium and large companies have their own sites where every clients all over the world can reach them. One thing that bothers with the employee and managers are when it comes to reporting time. Reporting is a big part in the company especially if it is dealing with your expenses. Sometimes hard times with the employee are taking place since you are dealing with the numbers all day and so many things in your time table error is possible to happen. Why you need to get through to the errors all over again and again which you can use the technology through the automated expense reporting. In my opinion here are the reasons you just switch your reporting with the automation.

Accurate report on time. Since you are in the hurry with all the tasks that you have in your time table sometimes delays might happen. Eliminate this delays makes your report in the right time that you are needed it be automated.

Stay with the Paperless Reporting. Since it is automated you don’t need to waste a piece of paper all over again and again just for your report.

Organized Reporting Process. Being organized is very important to the employee so that all the works will be done in the right time. When it comes to your report you must need to be organizing so that your report will be done in the right time. Automating your reports eliminates the errors in combining with the others all you have to do is follow all the steps needed just read and click is easy right?

Saving time and money. Since you are with the automated way of your reporting you can submit your reports in the right time and your company saves the money because the employee don’t need to pay more with the overtime but somehow the employee will have every expense reports in time.