Take the Travel and Expense Management Quiz!

Organizations have long provided ways for employees to be reimbursed for travel and expenses, but today, the need to efficiently manage spending is most urgent. Employees make more autonomous spending decisions than ever, and they expect convenience and quick reimbursement. The rapid shift to remote work means more people have home office and other atypical expenses. Requirements around tax and fraud prevention are increasingly complex.

Take the Travel and Expense Management quiz to establish your biggest priorities, and we’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content to address your most significant spend management challenges.

1. What is your biggest challenge managing employee spending or travel?

My biggest challenge is to empower employees to make smart spending decisions to help keep our company compliant My biggest challenge is to improve control over spending as more people work remotely My biggest challenge is to engage finance and IT teams to work collaboratively to maximize the value of our budget and improve compliance My biggest challenge is to help consolidate spend from travel and expenses onto one platform for greater visibility

2. How would you describe the importance of empowering employees to make smart spending decisions?

Empowering employees to make spending decisions that help keep our organization compliant is most important Empowering employees to make smart spending decisions is less important than ensuring IT and finance teams work collaboratively to give employees a better user experience Empowering employees to make smart spending decisions is less important than the visibility of having travel and expense data on one platform Empowering employees to make smart spending decisions is less important than improving control over spending as more people work remotely

3. How is your organization updating travel and expense policies since COVID-19?

We are adjusting expense workflows and software to better track spending related to COVID-19 We are exploring new ways to transform our current workflows and processes on the back end so it is easier to get a full picture of employee spending We are automating the expense process to save time and reduce errors We are exploring new ways to adjust our expense processes and tools so employees remain compliant while ensuring the process is easy for employees

4. How would you describe the importance of improving control over spending as more people work remotely?

Improving compliance within employee spending as people work remotely is most important to our organization Improving control over spending as more people work remotely is less important than integrating travel and expense data together Improving control over spending as more people work remotely is less important than ensuring compliance and preventing fraud Improving control over spending as more people work remotely is less important than engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively to reduce company spend or improve the employee experience

5. How are you seeking to improve your T&E processes?

We need to improve analytics and reporting to gain better visibility into spending We need to adopt modern technologies such as mobile, cloud and artificial intelligence to better capture and analyze all of our spending We need to ensure all of our employees, not just frequent travelers, are familiar with our T&E policies and can know whether they are in compliance or not We need to be able to track new expense categories, such as home office furniture, laptops, mobile phones and home Internet

6. How would you describe the importance of engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively to reduce company spend?

Engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively to reduce company spend is most important to our organization Engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively is less important than empowering employees to remain compliant Engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively is less important than improving control over spending as more people work remotely Engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively is less important than integrating travel and expense together

7. What is your biggest challenge with your current spend management solution?

We need to track new expenses related to remote work due COVID-19 We need a single solution for T&E that is effective across all our geographic locations Management want more visibility into expenses and expense projections Employees complain that it takes too long to submit or approve expenses

8. How would you describe the importance of integrating travel and expense spending data together on one platform?

Integrating travel and expense spending data together on one platform is the most important Integrating travel and expense spending data together on one platform is less important than engaging finance and IT teams to work collaboratively to reduce company spend Integrating travel and expense spending data together on one platform is less important than improving control over spending as more people work remotely Integrating travel and expense spending data together on one platform is less important than empowering employees to make smart spending decisions and remain compliant

9. Which is your biggest challenge in getting IT and finance to work together to enhance T&E?

Agreeing upon a strategy to both improve the employee experience and improve compliance Agreeing what new equipment can be expensed to enable long-term work-from-home Agreeing on new technology requirements such as mobile access, cloud-based platform and data integration with existing systems Agreeing on a solution that will scale to meet future needs, including global requirements

10. When seeking a modern spend management solution, which capability is most important?

Tools that enable a positive user experience with advanced mobile capabilities to approve or submit expenses anywhere, anytime Global capabilities to support tax management and currency for multiple countries Simplify submitting expenses for employees while keeping the organization compliant Analytics capabilities to improve visibility into employee travel and spending