Learn the best ways to manage your expenses | Security & Compliance

How many times have you been forced, in your company's accounting, to manually enter data from an expense report on your computer? With a valid detection rate of 99% according to the Researchgate study published in 2017, Optical Character Recognition can change your daily life: here's how this revolutionary business process works.

As digitalization becomes our new reality, more and more companies are adopting modern technology, such as expense management software. Expense management software holds data like employee names and details, corporate credit card information, transaction statements and financial history. You can see that the tool is equipped with a lot of useful and sensitive data. Therefore, companies should be careful when choosing the solution. This step should be taken to identify and assess risks that could potentially expose your system to cyberattacks. So, why and how your expense management tool should be secured from data breach?

Business growth means a lot of growing pains for a reason. You start having headcount, overseas expansions but the point is your business is getting bigger, which means more responsibilities, changes and of course spendings. So how can expense management solutions help you in this case? Is there more you could be doing to drive additional data and money into your expansion strategy? Is there a way to soften those pangs of progress? 

Many companies struggle with the issues of timely expense submission. Employees are often slow to file expenses, causing frustration on the side of finance managers. Based on various studies, a single expense claim can take up to 20 minutes to file, including filing approval and review. On top of that, 19% of claims are filed incorrectly and it can take, on average, another 18 minutes to fix those errors, causing significant delays in the reimbursement process. A Conferma report showed that 2 in 5 employees have experienced their own cash flow issues due to slow reimbursement processes.

What’s the goal of e-procurement? To dematerialize or digitize commercial transactions between businesses and their suppliers using digital solutions as a way to optimize the overall procurement process.

Expense fraud remains a pressing problem for companies globally, especially with the economic downturn brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. With an estimated 13.2% contraction of the economy in the latter half of 2020, the onset of the pandemic has brought about Singapore’s worst economic recession to date.¹ Expense fraud further contributes to significant economic losses for companies that fail to detect it, making it more crucial now than ever to tackle this challenge.

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