Spend Compliance Challenges for City and County Governments

Key points

• City and county finance teams must comply with various government laws and regulations.
• Many state and local government organizations have multiple outdated, on-premises legacy finance systems containing employee spend data.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 to see how money is spent and to review and control spend before it happens.
• Organizations struggle to 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 modernizing and automating to insert controls at the point of purchase, improve expense report accuracy, and use AI and machine learning to automatically review expense and receipt data.