Spend Compliance Challenges for City and County Governments

An SAP Concur blog post notes that city and county finance teams must comply with various government laws and regulations, yet many state and local government organizations have multiple outdated, on-premises legacy finance systems containing employee spend data. Before this data can be used, it often must be manually combined in a spreadsheet, making it hard for organizations to see how money is spent and by whom, review and control spend before it happens, enforce spend policy compliance, spot data patterns hidden across channels or systems, and actively identify and mitigate spend fraud, abuse, and waste. The post recommends that state and local government organizations modernize and aut…