Manage Travel and Entertainment Expenses of Employees

Is it important that the travel and entertainment expenses of your employees should be managed properly. If in case this is neglected, it will end up that the money of the company might be lost in the pockets of the employees. This is the reason why the expense policy of the company is very important. Here are some policies or things that you should consider in expense management on your company:

• Remember expense reporting plus receipts is equals to adequate accounting. Receipts should be accounted in every business expenses. This is the reason why receipts should be well kept in every transactions. (read details on storing the receipts the easy way)
• Set limits to credit cards/debit cards used by the employees.
• Review all the travel expense reports by the employees.

Now all of this can be conveniently made by the system of Certify. With several clicks, expense management will be as easy as 1-2-3.

Online Expense Solution vs. Offline Expense Software

Certify is considered to be the leading provider of expense management solution today for small to mid size businesses in the US today. Their system doesn't require any software to be installed on your PC. Instead what you need is the subscription for the system to work. That's right no installation just as a simple sign-up and you can start tracking expenses and prepare those expense reports in no time. The implementation for the Certify's online corporate expense management software is that all the data on the system were all stored on the data server of Certify. This eliminates the effort in maintaining and ensuring the reliability of the storage system of the data thus giving you more time to do something that you are really good at, which is doing your own business.

Offline expense software requires resources that needs monitoring for the part of the user. In the case of the solution provided by Certify, any time in any PC, you can securely access your data, track your expenses and send all those receipts in just click of your mouse or pressing the send button of your smart phones. It is just as easy as that. If you want more information about the features of the online expense solution that I am talking about, read it from my previous post entitled: Expense Management Features that You Should Know.

By the way, Certify also offers a "light" version of their Corporate Expense Software. It is intended for personal expense report tracking system needs.

Kerr Consulting and Hurley Travel Experts Partners with Certify

Kerr Consulting & Support, known for providing accounting solutions for small to large size companies and Hurley Travel Experts, known for being the leading provider of experiential and lifestyle travel in Maine and one of the largest "high touch" corporate travel management companies in the country both great organization partners with Certify, the leading online expense management solution provider for small to mid size companies. Both of these companies believe how Certify provides a first enterprise-class employee expense management solution in the market with on-demand service and instant availability.

These significantly made Certify as the best and yet the most reliable and cost effective compared to its competitors. You can read the official press releases of this partnership announcement on the following links:

• Certify chooses Kerr Consulting as Integration Partner
• Certify and Hurley Travel Experts partnership

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.