Small Businesses Slowly Recovering?

I found this interesting news from Reuters.com regarding how the small businesses look upon the slow recovery of the economy and how they are less optimistic about the future. Here's the excerpt of the report:

Small U.S. businesses became slightly less optimistic in June out of concern future sales will be soft, a survey released on Tuesday showed.

The National Federation of Independent Business said its monthly index of small business optimism slipped one point to a reading of 87.9 last month. It had gained 7.9 points since March, indicating a view the economy was stabilizing

"The economy is bouncing along the bottom and reorganizing itself to restart the growth process," said William Dunkelberg, chief economist for the NFIB.

- Read the rest of the report here.

This situation should be coped by the businesses today and employee's productivity should be maximized. Read the report of Aberdeen Group here regarding the relation of Travel and Entertainment Expense Automation and control which might facilitate to greater productivity of the employees and adaptation of the businesses to the economic problem of the country.

Expense Management by the Employees

A few of the important element of the small to mid size businesses today are the daily financial and administrative process that allow the organizations to monitor and control expenses, payment and invoices tracking and organizing and managing work flow. It is vital that the function of these processes should be efficient to make a profitable operation for the business. However, with the increase of regulatory scrutiny, there is a need to supply a proper documentation which is necessary to be complied.

Small to mid size businesses usually have hundreds or even thousands of personal expenses every month, be it petty cash, expense returns or credit cards. One of the tedious thing about this is the preparation of the expense reports relevant to this. But with the availability of the expense report software from Certify, it will be very convenient for the organization to easily track and control the expenses. This system utilizes the power of the Internet to prepare, approve, process and even reimburse. Management can look at expenses by person, department, project, client or any other level of analysis. Reports can show year to date and month comparisons with multiple levels of analysis.

Here are the summary of the benefits of the expense management software that it will bring to companies when implemented:

• Increases employee productivity
• Improves expense policy compliance
• Provides a rapid return on your expense management investment

The online expense software provides the ability to capture organization-wide travel expense data for faster payment, less administration overheads and detailed real time management analysis to control costs.

If you want this kind of system be implemented on your company, just visit the site of Certify at http://www.certify.com.

Affordable Personal Expense Software

Certify announces that their Certify Personal expense software is now much affordable. They've lowered their rates to make it more practical to those who wants the most reliable personal expense companion with their daily lives. With Certify expense management software, people can utilize the "virtual wallet" where they can easily store and retrieve their receipts anytime and anywhere they need it.

The said pricing will surely great both on your budget and your daily operations of your business. For the official press release of Certify.com regarding this new pricing, just visit the following link:

"Certify Announces New Pricing for Certify Personal"

Expense Management Features That You Should Know

Certify is the only expense management software company that provides the most easiest method in managing the expenses of an individual or the whole organization. Its continuous updates and enhancement of its features are the proof the seriousness of the company in providing the only best solution that you can get from the software.

Here are the different expense management software features of Certify that I think you should know:

• Policy Enforcement
• Automatic Approval Workflow
• Integrated real-time currency conversion
• Electronic capture of receipt by fax, email, mobile phone and more
• Corporate analytics and reporting for financial audit support
• Integration to existing accounts payable, accounting or payroll system

For more features and information about this amazing software from Certify, just go to their website at http://www.certify.com.

30 Day Free Trial Expense Report Software

Where can you find a free expense report software today without downloading any software to your PC or installing any system on it except an internet connection? Well, that is what is currently the trend today. SaaS or Software as a Service is the current technology today that allows you to use the full feature services of a software in a remote server. This lets you easily use whatever the software can provide without spending money for the server and the software development or purchase. Aside from that expense report can be prepared in simple steps that will not consume a lot of your time. All of the activities are done in a wizard and every single reports can be generated in just several mouse clicks.

Raw data necessary for the reports to be generated and passed to the accounting and management offices can be sent easily to the remote server. Why? It is because you are allowed to use any modern communication devices such as your smart phones, anywhere email, fax and other that can send data to PCs. One of the company that I always mentioned on this blog is the Certify.com. Their expense software system is known to be fast, accurate and reliable that is the quality that a system should possessed to become very useful in businesses. Get a 30 day trial from their site so that you can test its features. Don't worry its free so grab a subscription now!

More Functions for Certify Expense Solution

Today, Certify, the leading expense management software today announced another new enhancement for the services they provide for their clients. The said enhancement allows user to generate, track and report pre-paid expenses while also offering expanded general ledger coding functionality for enterprise class accounting system integration. This ensures that pre-paid expenses are tracked properly to reduce the travel expenses of companies. As according to the official press release of the company: 

As more companies attempt to reduce travel expenses by pre-purchasing airfare and hotel prior to travel, there is a growing need to identify, track and report prepaid expenses properly on the company balance sheet.  Certify Pre-Paid Expense functionality allows an employee to track expenses as pre-paid and then utilize the expense at a future date.  Certify provides the company with expanded reporting tools which identify pre-paid travel expenses by employee, while... read more from the official PR @ Certify extends enterprise class functionality

Certify just don't stop from improving its services to small to mid size companies. They just really mean business and helping businesses. Making preparation of expense reports very convenient for everyone. By the way the following video is the latest video release of Certify discussing the Accountant's Role in the Certify's system:

Corporate Self Booking + Expense Management Solution

Companies today are increasingly looking for better ways for their expense management without removing their cutting edge productivity. With nuTravel and Certify's partnership, this search is over with the strategic solutions provided by these two companies. nuTravel CTS is known to have the fastest and most flexible self-booking tool today now integrated to Certify's features in easily managing, tracking and controlling expenses through its new, intuitive and unique user interface.

With this partnership, nuTravel's client can now conveniently access the 1st and best enterprise-class online employee expense management solution with on-demand service and instant availability. The said solution allows users to use the online expense report software immediately, requiring no implementation or set-up, and get full access to a range of innovative tools like Receipt Capture via the mobile phones (iPhone and Blackberry) using the proprietary Certify Virtual Wallet. For corporate oversight and expense management, Certify provides features like travel policy enforcement, line item expense approval, extensive reporting capabilities, and real-time integration with accounting software.

For more information about this integration, you can visit their official release about it at http://www.certify.com/About/PR_NuTravel.aspx