Building a Business Case for Expense Management Automation

You Get It. But How Do You Help Others Get It, Too?

You Love the Idea of an Expense Report That Writes Itself

Expense reporting should be mobile and your data should be easily accessed through the cloud, but how do you get everyone else on board?

As you build your case for smarter expense reporting, it is helpful to remember two things:

• Automating the expense reporting process isn’t a top priority for most companies. That’s because many business leaders don’t realize the positive impact fixing expense reporting can have on many other aspects of their business.
• Company leaders rely on feedback from other key roles in the business before deciding to invest in change. Communicating with key stakeholders can help make that change happen.

What Are the Barriers to Change?

Businesses are often resistant to change because they don’t want to risk “good enough” for something that, in the end, could prove to be worse. But moving from ad-hoc, manual expense reporting to smarter, cloud-based — and even mobile — expense reporting provides value across the board.

Why Does Change Take Time?

With increased internal pressure to make the right decision, due diligence before purchase is becoming more independent and in-depth. But a diversity of opinions and priorities among stakeholders can make consensus elusive, causing purchase processes to stall entirely. Early engagement of key stakeholders is crucial to a successful project.