Fishy Expense Reporting Habits [+ Best Practices to Thwart Them]

Employees use all sorts of tricks to get their employers to pay for meals that are not really reimbursable. In ‘Fishy Expense Reporting Habits’ we examine 5 tactics employees use to defraud their employers and the best practices that will stop them dead in their tracks. Using #expensereports to get employers to pay for meals is a common trick that #accountspayable and #accounting professionals try and stop.

It should be noted that expense reporting is sometimes referred to as travel and entertainment or T&E.

Questionable employee expense reporting habits that cost your company is an ongoing battle. Employees who want to find out how to get your company to pay for your lunch will often use the expense report game playing tactics discussed. Keep in mind that these questionable employee expense reporting habits that cost your company are in widespread use and really should be stopped. That’s why we include the best practices that will put an end to these dubious practices.

These employee expense reporting habits should not be allowed in any expense reporting system. Yet they frequently are. The expense report games employees play cause havoc in accounts payable, accounting, and audit departments as the employee expense reports are reviewed. This expense report abuse is often ignored.

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Link to Expense Reporting Trends: Receipts
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