Month: April 2018

As a company employee, you might need to occasionally travel to meet clients or business associates, be it within the same city or long distance. The costs a company incurs for all these meetings really add up, which is why companies tend to be so strict with employee expense reimbursements. So if you find your

Business travel accounts can take a while to process and sometimes it might feel like settling your travel expense claims is taking longer than the actual trip duration! When the process is offline & manual, it is tedious for the accounting team to calculate and settle travel expense claims, reimbursements, service vendor invoices (like travel

Employee expense settlement is a laborious, complex and time consuming process for both parties – the employee and the company. The company deploys certain guidelines and regulations that need to be adhered to while applying for the claim. Most of the time, gathering data and submitting it to the accounts department is so cumbersome, that

Every company has its own unique HR & Admin policies. However, there are also rules that are generic and apply universally to working professionals. One such universal understanding is that employees are reimbursed for any T&E expenses incurred by them during travel or client servicing. Let’s take a look at some of the guidelines that

Every business has expenses, which of course have to be processed and dealt with — be it using Excel or an expense management software. Most businesses still rely on paper-based reporting, which is impossible to automate and extremely slow to process. Instead of paper-based expense reporting, a dedicated cloud-based travel & expense management solution like

Travel & Entertainment expenses – often dubbed T&E – tend to be the 2nd or 3rd largest business operational overhead, after salaries and rent. Garnering such a big chunk of business expenses and being the sort of expense category that can be flexibly controlled, T&E usually comes under the limelight when a business takes a

Zento is a cloud-based (or on-premise) employee expense reimbursement solution that benefits both managers and employees with its simplicity and intuitive features. Replacing outdated expense management systems with Zento enables companies to develop an efficient expense settlement process that is easy to implement and provides instant results. Zento can also be customized according to an

Studies conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners show that employee expense claim frauds make up 15% of all business fraud – a significant chunk. ACFE also indicates that on average a period of about 24 months is needed for expense report frauds to be detected and substantiated with proof. If you suspect your