How to Increase Expense Policy Compliance in Four Steps
SAP Concur article provides four steps to increase expense policy compliance: review and refine expense categories, write a more effective reimbursement policy, automate expense reports and reimbursements, and leverage spend data. It notes that policy violations for excessive personal expenses increased 21.8% from 2020 to 2021. After automation, customers reported 43% less time to fill out and submit reports, 65% more compliant claims, and 50% less time to reimburse.
Impact and considerations
For businesses, improving expense policy compliance reduces budget overruns and fraud risk; automation saves time and increases employee satisfaction.
Key points
- Policy violations for excessive personal expenses increased 21.8% from 2020 to 2021.
- After automation, time to fill out and submit expense reports decreased by 43%.
- Compliant expense claims increased by 65%.
- Reimbursement time decreased by 50%.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
- Other sources
- 0
- First source publication
- 3 Oct 2022, 19:16
- Page published
- 14 Aug 2026, 08:29
- Last updated
- 3 Oct 2022, 19:16
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog：How to Increase Expense Policy Compliance in Four Steps (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 3 Oct 2022, 19:16