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Supporting Your Organisation’s Temporary Transition to Work-from-Home
Making the transition to working from home isn't always easy for employees. Emburse's Chief People Officer, Danielle Tabor, offers tips on how organisations can set their teams up for success.
Virtualising Financial Operations to Adapt to Increased Work from Home Requirements
Working from home will be with us for some time. To ensure everyday operations are disrupted as little as possible, finance teams need to quickly adapt to a virtual environment.
Five Key Questions to Ask on Your Expense Management Solution RFP
Organising your expense management software RFP can be a daunting task. Start with these five questions on global capabilties, mobile features, user experience, pricing and support. Then dive deep with our free RFP template.
IDC Recognizes Chrome River as a Leader in Enterprise Expense Management
We're honored to announce that Chrome River has again been recognized by leading global technology analyst IDC as a Leader in the 2019 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Travel and Expense Management Software
Gartner Digital Markets Reviews Crown Chrome River the Leader in Expense Management
Gartner Digital Markets uses real reviews from verified users to rate software products. So when its reports list us as the leading expense software solution, we're pretty happy. See for yourself where we stacked up against three of our key competitors.
The Next-Generation CFO
The times they are a-changin' for CFOs. The next generation of finance leaders will need to quarterback teams with a wide variety of backgrounds and skill-sets, in order to create a future-ready organisation which will continue to thrive as the face of business changes.
How I Did It: Building an Integrated Card and Expense Program
Cleveland, Ohio-based Dealer Tire manages replacement tire and parts programs for more than 20 automotive OEMs in the U.S. and China. In this guest blog post, Mary Hayat, Dealer Tire’s director of accounting, explains how the company lets business flow by building an integrated card and expense program.
How I Did It: Modernizing Invoice Approval for a Rapidly-Growing Organization
The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a diverse research and clinical care organisation that includes four hospitals, two regional medical centers and a multitude of clinical care providers. In this guest blog post, Steve Kelly, UPHS’ director of disbursements, outlines how the organisation lets business flow by delivering a mobile, highly-automated integrated expense and invoice automation solution.
What Critical Factors Must You Know About For Global Expense Management?
Every company has unique requirements for its expense management solution, be it industry-specific regulations that need to be followed or complex business rules for approval routing. However, few organizations have as specific and complex needs for their expense management system as those with a significant global presence.
Overcoming the Headache of Changing Global Expense Tax Regulations
There are countless nuances of international business regulations that organisations need to follow. In particular, how can companies ensure that they stay compliant with global statutory requirements for expense reimbursement?
The Fourth Era of Expense Management: Spend Optimisation
We're seeing a paradigm shift in the world of expense management, from a focus on control and compliance to spend optimisation. CEO Alan Rich discusses where T&E spend analysis is heading.
How Analysing Your Holiday Customer Gift Spend Can Drive Next Year’s Revenues
Expenses such as holiday gifts for customers can help provide valuable data for measuring sales, but only if companies have the tools to analyse it. How can organisations make better use of this - and other sales team travel and expense data - to better plan for the future?
Future Proofing your Expense Management System Investment
How can organisations ensure that their software investments bear fruit for years into the future? They need to be sure that as they evolve and grow with the market and the economy, the software solutions that are used to support them can accommodate these changes.
How an Unfriendly Expense Submission Process can Negatively Impact Your Quarter-close
A company that provides its employees with manual or cumbersome expense reporting solutions may be hurting itself in many ways. One which is often overlooked is that employees who procrastinate over submitting their expenses could jeopardize the accuracy of the quarter-close, which could have serious ramifications.
Taking Corporate Cards into the Virtual Age
The end of the traditional corporate card era is looming. The way that organisations source, pay for, and reimburse business travel has changed more in the past five years than the previous several decades combined.
Do You Know the True Cost of Sales?
Companies know how much their employees spend on hotels, flights and meals. While this information may help the travel manager, it doesn't help finance or sales leaders to measure how T&E spend impacts revenue generation.
7 Reasons Why the Finance Team Should Push for Expense Management Software
While there's no denying that automating end-user processes and enabling hassle-free mobile submission of expense claims provides major ease-of-use and time-saving benefits for business travelers, the ROI that these benefits deliver is often dwarfed by the impact that expense automation has on the finance function.
Why the Manual Invoice Processing Model Is Broken (And How to Fix It)
Every organisation’s finance team knows that controlling supplier costs is critical. However, one area that many organisations have yet to address is the actual cost of the invoice management and processing function.
Capturing and Optimising Your True Corporate Travel Program Spend Using Total Cost of Ownership
If your CFO or controller asked you to provide the organisation’s total travel spend over the past year, how would you get that data? The obvious (and traditional) answer is to ask for reports from your travel agency, breaking down hotel, flight and rental car costs. That should give you a pretty accurate figure, right? Well – not really.
Specialist Expense Vendors vs. ERP Suite Modules: Pros and Cons
For mid-size and large companies, best-of-breed travel and expense or all-in-on isn’t the only decision to be made when it comes to expense software. Many ERP providers also offer expense management capabilities as part of their broader suite of financial and HR tools. How do you decide which works best for you?
New Gartner Market Guide: Key Criteria for Travel Expense Management Solutions
Gartner has just released its 2017 Market Guide for Travel Expense Management (TEM) Software. The guide is essential reading for any organisation that’s thinking of investing in an expense management solution in the coming year, or is considering upgrading its existing solution.
Expense Reimbursement, I’d Like You to Meet the Real World…
Combining expense reimbursement with the payroll slows your process to a crawl, making your employees wait weeks for payment. Decouple the two and see how much happier you make employees AND finance.
Chrome River or Concur – How to Decide Which Works Best for You
Organisations who are looking for a full-featured, enterprise-grade expense management solution often find that the choice comes down to Chrome River and Concur. Once the shortlist has been created, how can finance, IT and procurement teams work out which solution works best for their team?
How Expense Data Integration Makes Finance and Accounting Easier
While a streamlined expense management system can make life easier for your business travellers and travel managers, it can also do amazing things for your finance and accounting departments. Not every expense management system will have the power to perk up accounting and finance, however. You need a platform that can integrate into the finance and accounting systems your departments already know and use.
Why it’s Critical to Right-size your Technology Provider
One of the most critical questions when choosing an enterprise technology provider is “will we be a good match?” This isn’t just in terms of the vendor’s solution, and how its solution integrates with your infrastructure, but also if the two organisations mesh well together. Your decision needs to address a wide variety of factors beyond “can it do what we need it to do?” and “does it offer good value?” You also need to consider factors ranging from cultural fit to where you are size-wise on your vendor’s customer roster.
Why Sensible Travel Expense Policies are Critical for Business Traveller Happiness
The Global Business Travel Association recently announced the results of its Business Traveller Sentiment Index Global Report. The report assesses the overall happiness with several aspects of travellers’ overall experience, from making travel arrangements through to getting through airport security and taking various forms of ground and air transport.
One-Stop-Shop vs. Best-of-Breed: What’s Best for Travel and Expense?
One of the most common discussions in business software procurement has been that of one-stop-shop versus best-of-breed. Choose a single vendor for all aspects of a particular function, they say, and your organisation will see wide-ranging benefits, from lower costs, to smoother integration, more straightforward support resolution, and so on.
5 Benefits of Corporate Card Programs
Ah, here we are, the ever-popular debate on the pros vs the cons of corporate card programs! Why should businesses allow employees to have corporate cards? Some feel that they have the potential to increase the organisation’s financial exposure, risk employees racking up large bills, and are potentially tricky for finance teams to both implement and manage on an ongoing basis. Done right, however, corporate credit and payment cards can offer wide-ranging financial, operational and security benefits.
Expense best practices to delight your employees AND your CFO
Anyone who has looked at some of the perks that companies offer will understand that any forward-thinking organisation places a premium on attracting and retaining the best talent. When you factor that it costs an average of 6-9 months’ salary to replace an employee, spending a little extra to keep your team happy is a sound investment. The hard cost of employee turnover is, of course, just one issue here. Companies’ ability to thrive is reliant upon attracting and retaining the best talent. Being unable to keep and hire staff can have a seriously detrimental impact on an organisation’s overall health.
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Our choice of Chrome River EXPENSE was made in part due to the very user-friendly interface, easy configurability, and the clear commitment to impactful customer service – all aspects in which Chrome River was the clear winner. While Chrome River is not as large as some of the other vendors we considered, we found that to be a benefit and our due diligence showed that it could support us as well as any large players in the space, along with a personalized level of customer care.
We are excited to be able to enforce much more stringent compliance to our expense guidelines and significantly enhance our expense reporting and analytics. By automating these processes, we will be able to free up AP time formerly spent on manual administrative tasks, and enhance the role by being much more strategic.