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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Best practices for easing tax compliance and expense reporting for SMBs

    A SAP Concur blog post offers best practices for SMB tax compliance, including unifying expense and invoice systems, adopting digital tools and automation, recognizing the tax implications of remote work, building a culture of compliance, and teaming up with a trusted partner. It says SMBs face inefficient expense tracking, time-consuming tax document management, missed filing deadlines, and cash-flow difficulties, which can lead to fines and fraud risks.

Jan 10Wed
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    SAP Concur on How HR Can Elevate Employee Experience with T&E Tools

    SAP Concur published an article on how HR teams can use travel, expense, and broader technology solutions to elevate employee experience. It covers automating approvals and expense reports through a centralized cloud spend-management platform, mobile receipt capture and GPS mileage tracking; using machine learning and AI to track, calculate, and report taxable employee benefits to simplify remote-work tax; and using a modern T&E system to meet flexible travel expectations while fulfilling duty of care. It cites that 76% of employees say a work-from-anywhere policy would increase job satisfaction and 91% of business travelers expect to make choices outside company policy for reasons such as…

Jun 8Thu
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    SAP Concur Survey: Majority Feel Business Travel Isn't Offered Equally

    SAP Concur's fifth annual Global Business Travel Survey polled 3,850 business travelers across 25 markets. Nearly two-thirds (62%) feel they haven't had equal opportunity to travel compared with coworkers, attributing this mainly to age, accent, or gender; in the U.S. the figure rises to 72%. 94% are willing to travel in the next 12 months and 92% say their career depends on successful business travel. Health and safety (44%) remains the biggest threat, and 53% globally changed accommodations in the past 12 months because they felt unsafe, rising to 70% in the U.S. Remote workers report sharper gaps in equal opportunity, travel willingness, and cost pressure.

Jun 29Wed
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    SAP Concur: Business Continuity Planning Lessons from COVID-19

    SAP Concur blog interviewed experts from TransferMate and Taxback Group on how companies can create effective disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Experts recommend starting with existing controls, conducting a business impact assessment, testing recovery capabilities, and ensuring executive involvement. The article stresses acting early, continuous communication, and leveraging technology to improve remote operational agility.

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    SAP Concur Podcast: AP Automation Frees People to Do Their Best Jobs

    A SAP Concur podcast conversation with Deloitte explores how accounts payable (AP) automation empowers employees and enhances strategic value. Deloitte specialist Oren Geshuri notes that AP has traditionally been viewed as a non-strategic area; automation does not eliminate people but frees AP teams from paper-based processes to focus on more strategic work. COVID-19 served as a litmus test for organizational survivability: organizations that had already automated could quickly shift to remote work, while those without automation struggled with paper invoices that couldn't be taken home. The discussion also covers talent retention, employee experience, and the impact of automation on overal…

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    SAP Concur Discusses Duty of Care Beyond Emergencies

    SAP Concur published an article discussing how duty of care has evolved from crisis management to everyday, comprehensive employee care. Citing experts including Isaac Bowman, senior manager at Deloitte, and Dr. William Hauptman, medical director at International SOS, it notes the pandemic made safety an everyday concern, leading organizations to tighten travel approval controls, use traveler-tracking technology, and extend duty of care to remote employees' mental and physical health.

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    Navigating Your Business Through Turbulent Times: FAQ

    SAP Concur webinar addressed common business questions during the pandemic. Remote work creates new expenses like monitors, internet, and office supplies, requiring policy updates. Companies stay connected via digital tools and use SAP Qualtrics to assess employee well-being. SAP Concur offers reports and analytics to control spend and optimize cash flow.

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    SAP Concur: Business on the Go: Making Mobile Expenses and Invoices a Reality

    A SAP Concur blog post describes how mobile expense and invoice management can boost productivity. The SAP Concur smartphone app lets employees submit expenses from anywhere, managers review and approve, and employees photograph receipts to automatically create itemized expense claims. TripIt Pro organizes all travel details into a single digital itinerary and provides real-time alerts on flight delays and cancellations. The article says cloud tools support remote work and virtual offices.

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    Managing Expense Compliance During Uncertainty (Part One)

    A SAP Concur blog Q&A with Connie Hoen, who has over 30 years of audit and compliance experience, discusses how companies can control employee spend during uncertainty. The article identifies global travel and expense policies, expense report audit programs, and reporting and analysis requirements as three impacted areas. It recommends assessing work-from-home expense policies, creating 'at home' expense types in expense software, re-evaluating receipt requirements, and training first-time expense submitters and approvers.

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    Deloitte and SAP Concur Launch Travel Ready Compliance App

    Deloitte announced the upcoming release of the Deloitte - Travel Ready app in the SAP Concur App Center, an extension of the SAP-Deloitte partnership. The app connects the Deloitte platform with Concur Request, Concur Travel and Concur Expense, and aims to ease compliance for cross-border business travelers and remote workers by creating a consolidated approval, travel booking and compliance assessment process. It supports compliance with travel restrictions, visa and work permits, income tax, EU cross-border posted worker rules, social security, payroll taxes, corporate taxes and entity establishment risk. Craig Muir, Deloitte Global GES lead partner, and Pete Elmgren, senior vice presiden…

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    Duty of Care Isn't Only About Traveler Safety Anymore

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that duty of care is expanding beyond travel safety to encompass the health and well-being of remote workers. Citing a SAP Concur whitepaper titled 'More Than a Matter of Safety,' it states that mitigating health and safety exposures for employees is rapidly becoming one of the most important resilience and risk management strategies for companies. The post also cites IHG research: 40% of business travelers miss seeing clients face-to-face, 50% miss meaningful relationships built through corporate travel, and 45% say business travel improves their mood and motivation. Companies are turning to technology including tracking and visibility tools, round-the-clock c…

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    New Normal: Remote Workers, PPE and Potential Tax Implications

    A SAP Concur blog post examines expense and tax issues arising from post-pandemic remote work. It cites United Airlines predicting the industry will not return to 2019 travel levels until 2024, and an FCM study predicting business travel may remain low until 2023. The author raises potential reimbursement costs such as home internet and office equipment, noting that $65 per month for 10,000 workers adds $650,000 in monthly costs, and for 100,000 workers $6.5 million monthly. The post also discusses tax risks from 'work from anywhere' arrangements and mentions a California utility tax effective November 1, 2020.

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    A Finance Leader's Guide to Supporting Software Deployment in a Remote-Work World

    SAP Concur published a guide on the role of finance leaders in supporting software deployment in a remote-work environment. The article notes that analysts predict 25% to 30% of personnel will work from home at least multiple days a week by the end of 2021, and finance leaders need to actively engage in four areas: stakeholder engagement, rollout strategy, change management, and software/process optimization to ensure ROI.

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    Lumen Technologies Helps State and Local Governments Optimize Remote Work

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that state and local governments face tighter budgets and remote work challenges. A Wakefield study found 88% of agency respondents felt many back-end operations cannot be managed remotely. Lumen Technologies, a SAP Concur reseller partner, offers spend management solutions including Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Invoice to automate and connect the entire spend process, helping government agencies gain visibility, maintain compliance, and support remote work.

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    SAP Concur Survey: Remote Work Poses Productivity Challenges for US State and Local Governments

    A survey commissioned by SAP Concur of 500 US state and local government finance and administration decision-makers found remote work poses productivity challenges for these departments. Only 11% of respondents said they have a fully automated platform allowing employees to track travel and expenses, and 39% said they have made no investments in expense and travel-related technology at all. 67% of decision-makers are managing three or more additional work tasks due to COVID-19, and 55% of governments have the added responsibility of redirecting funds for essential services such as public health and safety. 75% of respondents said COVID-19 accelerated their department's decision to invest in…

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    Survey: State and Local Government Finance Teams Face Remote Work Challenges

    A SAP Concur blog cites a Wakefield survey of 500 state and local government finance and administrative departments. 67% of staff took on three or more new responsibilities; 88% cited accessing information and tools as the top remote-work challenge; 89% lack a fully automated platform to track travel and/or expenses; and predicted average budget shortfalls for the upcoming fiscal year are 24%. 75% said the pandemic accelerated their decision to invest in cloud-based budget management solutions.

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    Get Around Your Workarounds. Let's Automate That.

    An SAP Concur blog post notes that remote and hybrid working is increasing the number and creativity of finance hacks, such as couriering invoices to remote employees for approval, using random audits to detect expense errors, and saving self-booked travel plans in calendar invites. While these workarounds may seem to keep spend data flowing, they drive increased operational costs, risks, and complexity, while decreasing spending visibility, control, and employee productivity. Survey data cited shows only 39% of U.S. companies say they have the right systems to adapt quickly to changing business needs, 43% of businesses with digitized invoice management saw increased agility and resiliency,…

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    Pandemic Year Two: How Companies Adapted Travel and Expense Management

    A SAP Concur blog post reviews how companies adapted travel and expense management during the first two years of the pandemic. Serco used Concur Travel reports to quickly locate employees and facilitate safe returns; Penn State managed unused airfare through an online booking tool; CAF America allocated $1,500 per employee for home office equipment, with 80% submitting reimbursements totaling over $42,000 in under two weeks; The Tech Interactive adopted cloud solutions for electronic invoicing and mobile expense reporting.

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    How Corporate Spend Processes Must Adapt to Remote Work

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that if corporate spend processes and policies have not adapted to remote-work realities, spend visibility will decline further. It recommends using corporate card data as the core of compliance management and adopting automated receipt capture, audit rules and flexible expense categories to address blind spots from personal-card payments, cash reimbursement and remote-work-related spend.

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    Does Your Spend Management Solution Feel Like It's Solving Anything?

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that if companies cannot fully capture employee expenses and invoice data, they risk making purchasing, budgeting, and forecasting decisions based on incomplete information. The article mentions that employees not in offices find it harder to follow spending protocols, and new spending categories like PPE, home office furniture, and internet connections add management complexity. It recommends automated solutions for spend visibility and offers six key spending questions for self-assessment.

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    SAP Concur: Our Continuing Customer Commitment

    Then-President of SAP Concur Jim Lucier wrote to customers outlining the company's business continuity measures during the pandemic. Products and services remained uninterrupted, most employees worked remotely, and global services and support teams maintained normal service levels. Offices implemented enhanced safety procedures, non-essential travel was suspended through the end of April, in-person internal and external events were canceled or postponed, and SAP Concur Fusion was held virtually.

  20. SAP Concur Blog

    Post-Pandemic Corporate Spend Risk and Expense Compliance Challenges

    SAP Concur blog cites an Oversight-sponsored Spend Insight Report showing corporate spend risk has nearly tripled since the pandemic, with remote work becoming an open invitation to high-risk spending. T&E spend infractions shot up 292% between 2019 and 2020, while out-of-pocket and fraud violations climbed 32% and 12% respectively. With more remote and hybrid workers, it's harder to tell how much spending crosses the line. Finance leaders must re-examine spend management and strengthen controls and audits.

  21. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: A Guide to Wellbeing and Productivity for Remote Workers

    SAP Concur, in collaboration with Telegraph Spark, published a guide on remote-worker wellbeing, drawing on experts from SAP Concur, Unmind, Global Leadership Associates and others. The article notes that remote work during the pandemic brings loneliness, stress and family challenges, and recommends that employers clarify expectations, offer flexible hours, build team connections and address home-office ergonomics. A Gallup meta-analysis found companies with highly engaged workforces are 21% more profitable. A global survey by SAP Concur and Forrester found more than 60% of respondents named T&E management software, accounts payable and automation tools as the most important tools enhancing…

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    Manual AP Processes: A Shining Example of Inefficiency for State and Local Government

    SAP Concur blog post highlights that state and local governments face inefficiencies, errors, and risks from manual AP processes during the pandemic. Surveys show 68% of decision makers say unexpected expenses and new spending categories are major challenges to remote work, and 67% have taken on three or more additional responsibilities. The article recommends automated invoice and expense processing to reduce fraud risk, errors, and late payments.

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    College and University Back Offices Face Toughest AP Test Yet

    A SAP Concur blog post cites a Wakefield Research survey of 350 higher education finance and administration staff, highlighting remote-work software gaps, budget tightening, and compliance pressure at colleges and universities during the pandemic. Only 16% of staff can continue working remotely without hurting department productivity; 60% are prepared to reduce pay or cut staff to offset budget shortfalls; and 71% are concerned about complying with regulations due to sustained remote work. 99% of decision-makers agreed certain investments must be made, and 84% want funding for technology that integrates systems, devices, and spend data.

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    SAP Concur: Don't Get Blown Away by Manual Expense Processes

    A SAP Concur blog post states that manual, paper-based expense report processes can take hours, with employees spending large portions of their days digging through receipts and manually inputting expenditures, while finance departments review and reconcile reports. It cites SMB Group data: 30% of SMBs support telecommuting for 20% or more of employees, 18% expect the percentage of telecommuting workers to increase next year, 57% say 20% or more of their workforce travels for work, and 14% expect this number to increase next year. It recommends SMBs choose a scalable mobile expense system like Concur Expense, where employees simply photograph receipts.