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Comply or Perish

“If you think compliance is expensive, think about what non-compliance is costing you?” These words become more poignant in a scenario where a typical company has 20% out-of-policy spending. With policies not being stringent enough, compliance is...

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Concur® Earns Prestigious CIO Choice 2014 Recognition

The “independent advisory panel” of CIO Choice recognizes Concur under the category: Travel & Expense Management Cloud Solutions provider India, Mumbai, January 10, 2014: Concur (NASDAQ: CNQR), the leading provider of integrated travel and...

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Concur Technologies Recognized as Travel & Expense Management Leader by CIOs

India, Mumbai, January 13, 2016: Concur, the world’s leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, has been awarded the prestigious CIO Choice 2016 Honor and Recognition under the category titled, ‘Travel & Expense...

Strategies To Prevent Finance Frauds

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Concur releases its globally renowned Travel & Entertainment report in India

Concur releases its globally renowned Travel & Entertainment report for the first time in India Bangalore and Mumbai among the top 25 international cities visited for business Concur Report Provides In-Depth Look at $50 Billion Worth of...

5 reasons to insist your business adopts Cloud Technology

Not that cloud adoption really requires any reasons but be sure to know that this technology does bring with itself a host of benefits that not only lowers operational cost but also boosts scalability at a corporate level. Imagine an on-the-go...

Love to be on Cloud Nine! But what does it take?

From times known to man, humans have lived a community life. Sharing thus has been the key to survival. Not only did it protect but also allowed us humans to prosper. Prosper we did and sharing truly became the core philosophy behind the evolution...

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GSA Names Concur As Sole ETS2 Provider

Company’s solution will provide integrated travel and expense management to U.S. Government agencies Redmond, Wash., June 4, 2012 – Concur (NASDAQ: CNQR), a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, today announced...

What’s it to have a lean finance function?

When the boss of a leading Company quoted that ‘It’s not the strongest or the most intelligent that survives but the most adaptable’, he summed up the lean, adaptable mood of most 21st century companies. Against this backdrop, an increasing number...

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Concur clients in India now have access to Low Cost Carrier Content & Indian...

Concur clients in India now have access to Low Cost Carrier Content (LCC) & expanded access to Indian hotel content: Latest innovations enable Concur clients to achieve greater control and efficiency in travel management India, Mumbai, March...

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Concur and Ola come together to deliver seamless mobility benefits to...

Bangalore, March 6, 2017: Concur, the leading provider of spend management solutions and services, today announced its integration with Ola Corporate, Ola’s enterprise solution for business travelers and corporates. Under this innovative...

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Manual, paper based Travel Request Approval processes could cost Indian...

Mumbai, June 18, 2012 -- Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), the leading provider of integrated travel and expense management services, announced the release of their Nielsen India research on “Understanding the Corporate Travel Expense Management Practices in...

Thinking of moving to the cloud? Tips for starting securely

If you haven’t moved to the cloud yet, chances are you’re considering it—according to Gartner research, moving to the cloud is a top priority for 32 percent of CIOs around the world[1]. Of course it is: we’re all under pressure to save costs and...

The Top 4 Hidden Costs behind a Manual Expense Process

So you’ve used and trusted spreadsheets for the longest time to manage critical finance tasks like company expenses. You’re not alone. The humble, yet powerful spreadsheet has long been considered the “Swiss Army knife” in the finance team’s...

Tough Love: The art of enforcing compliance

Firms today must focus on the adequacy of the structures they’ve created for themselves to manage the complexity and internal-external challenges of an evolving landscape. Often, this is where arises the task of ensuring employees are policy and...

Aam Aadmi is now an APP Aadmi

Times are changing and we now live in two worlds - real and online - that perfectly complement each other. The combined new world can perhaps be termed as the ONLINE REALity! And while we, the Aam Aadmi or the common people, are evolving and...

Business or Financial Transformation: Fear It or Face It?

The term Business or Financial Transformation sounds so regal that it sometimes can be its own un-doing; so much so that very few senior managers attempt radical transformation. Whether it is taking on B-HAGS (Read Big Hairy Audacious Goals) or...

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Concur Partners with Didi Chuxing in China to Simplify Global Travel and...

Concur, the world's leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, today announced a new partnership with Didi Chuxing, the world's largest mobile transportation platform, to further simplify the expense management process...

Direct booking challenge grows as hotels lure business travelers

As companies worldwide grapple with the rise of direct booking, suppliers are accelerating this industry shift by bringing strong incentives to business travelers. In fact, to build customer loyalty and business, hotels are making big investments...

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Concur India Established To Serve The Travel & Expense Management Needs of...

Mumbai, India, April 18, 2011 – Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, today announced the establishment of operations in India – a move that perfectly aligns with the company’s strategic...

Fast. Not Furious: 7 Highlights of Automated Travel and Expense Solutions

The need for speed is crucial as your business gets global and the scenario becomes more competitive. While all the action and thrill of your journey to be successful excites you, it is necessary that you upgrade to the latest developments in...

Take the highway to speed up T&E

Improved infrastructure is helping Indians with faster connectivity. Since we are now able to save travel time, a better life is not a distant dream. The development authorities have started undertaking several projects that will change, and a few...

The T&E Automation Wave: What it means … and why you should be a part of it.

Did you know that using an automated travel and expense management solution cuts booking fees by 79%? That’s a significant cost-saving1! Also, as much as 41% of time can be saved in completing expense reports. T&E automation is a big part of...

Work, Sleep, Family, Repeat OR Family, Friends, Work, Repeat... Is...

Does this sound like our generation’s COO dilemma? What to prioritize? Where to draw the line? What order to follow? How to balance work & home? How to take out time for friends, family and fitness? What does work-life juggling mean to an...

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Concur revolutionizes ground travel with Uber for business

Concur, the world’s leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, announced an expansion of its partnership and technology integration with Uber that will be first of its kind. As part of this expanded partnership and...

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Concur Announces Strategic Investment and Alliance with Cleartrip

Marketing partnership and $40 million investment in India's leading online travel portal presents tremendous growth opportunity Mumbai, India, April 18, 2011 – Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management...

Get Over JUGAAD, There Are Better Solutions

One of the real difficult conversations that most management consultants have with Senior Management especially in India is around efficiency and productivity of their operations. So solutions improving productivity or efficiency are more often,...

The evolution of IT in the era of cloud computing

We sat down with Concur Chief Technology Officer Mark Nelson to talk about the impact of cloud computing on the role of CIOs and IT departments. In his role, Mark is responsible for running all IT for Concur, including the company’s cloud services...

The No 1 reason for CFO to spend more on analytics

CFOs are known to have an analytical mind. Only they have the broad overview and insight across finance, procurement, and all that’s related to managing invoices. Despite this fact, they still choose to spend more on analytics. Ever wondered, why...

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Nearly 2,500,000 Travellers Now Using Concur and TripIt Mobile Apps

Mumbai, 12th March 2012 – Concur, the world’s leader in providing integrated travel and expense management solutions, with over 15,000 clients globally and hundreds of clients in India alone, has announced that close to one million travellers are...

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Concur partners ‘India’s Top 500 Companies & Corporate Awards 2016’ as Travel...

Concur partners ‘Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards 2016’ as the Travel and Expense Technology partner with an aim to contribute to thought leadership in the corporate sector. The awards is renowned as the most valued and respected accolades...

Dear BFSI... What goes to the cloud, Stays in the cloud!

Gone are the days when fears about security and regulatory risks kept the banking industry away from adopting the business agility offered by cloud services. Up till some time back, financial services industry stayed away from cloud vendors;...

Travel And Expense Inefficiencies That An Informed CEO-CFO Just Can't Ignore

‘Forecast 2016’ keeps the travel world on its toes A global card provider recently issued a Travel Forecast for 2016*1 that envisages a rise in airfare and hotel prices, fueled by a buoyant economy and upbeat markets in the Indian and Asian...

Travel & Expense Management Decoded For The Millennial Employees

Smart technology to allow for travel & expense management solutions that ensure more and hassle-free travel, which includes pre and post dilemma. Global business travel is on a steady rise. A report by American Express Global Business Travel...

How moving Expense Management to the cloud can impact ROI

According to a recent survey from Avanade(1) many global organisations are increasingly open to investing in innovative smart technologies - as many as 93% of those participated in the survey. They project a potentially sharp rise - an increase of...

Automate Travel & Expense Management NOW!

Travel is exciting: …The anticipation of being in a new city, meeting new people …The excitement about making your way in a new place, perhaps with a different language

Data Demands Action, Not Reaction

What’s flowing in and out of organizations isn’t the complete picture of what today’s data looks like. From sensors, tags and scanners to mobile devices, social media and machines; the total amount of data generated through these in 2013 was...

What Discounts Are You Getting At Workplace?

We live in a country where discounts are a given. We look for discounts on household items, holiday packages, airline tickets and the list goes on. Now imagine, if this discount system reaches your office! Ever heard of getting a discount on...

Virtues of Visibility: See the change before you be the change

With the Global Business Travel Association reporting a record-breaking business travel spend of $1.25 trillion USD in 2014, and now an expected expansion to 5.8% in 2019, corporate travel and expense is bound to hog the limelight for the finance...

Paper Passe

Paper. Pesky. Passé: Imagining a paper-free office As India moves towards a cashless environment after demonetisation, the initial frenzy and confusion have given way to a Paper-Free work environment. In corporate world, this could signal the...

O la la: Business rides get smoother with Concur Ola partnership

A recent Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Business Travel Industry Outlook – India report positions India as the 10th biggest business travel market in the world, with the GBTA Foundation report estimating a whopping 10.2% growth in 2017....

ABC of GST

In an utopian world, businesses should drive taxes, but in the Indian context, it was anything but that. This was because businesses were left with little choice but to restructure their operations and model supply chain and distribution to reduce...

The software that saves you from expense reports

It’s safe to say that no one likes filling out expense reports. No one. It either takes time away from getting your job done, or, if you’re like most people and end up doing them after hours, it takes time away from doing the things you love. It’s...

Are you GST ready, in the true sense?

This is the tax trigger, which will lead business to a level of transformation like never before. For all major industries ranging from consumer goods to pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing and logistics, GST presents an opportunity to make...

Automated Invoicing Solutions Can Help Beat 5 Top GST Challenges

50% of companies still receive invoices by paper, and 36% by email, leading to hours spent on manual processing — and the hours spent correcting the mistakes that can slip through when invoices are handled manually. This slip through is not just...

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Concur, an SAP Company, Redefines Financial Transformation for Sri Lanka’s...

Colombo, Sri Lanka | November 3, 2017: Concur®, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, this week announced an intention to accelerate financial transformation and automation in Spend...

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Concur honored as one of the best places to work by Glassdoor for third...

BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 6, 2017 — Concur, an SAP company and the world's leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2018....

Your checklist for end-of-year finance team survival

The end of the year is almost here, and with December 19 being the busiest expense day last year, we know your work is starting to heat up. Don’t stress! Use this handy checklist to reduce distractions, increase productivity, better communicate...

Solutions from Concur integrate the T&E process to give managers visibility,...

With business processes becoming more human centric in their ways to deal transactions, it has become crucial for entities to invest in corporate travel – a key operational business activity for Indian enterprises as they visit clients, suppliers...

Mobile Technology: The Enterprise’s New Digital Toolbox

A few decades ago, one would have thought that innovative technological advancements would make business travel obsolete over time. In today’s world, while long distance communication like web conferencing continues to gain adoption, many...

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SAP Concur Brings Continued Innovation and Connected Experiences to Customers

Power of combined brands helps deliver exceptional solutions to organizations of all sizes, industries and geographies Bangalore, India January 2, 2018 – SAP Concur®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management...

SAP Concur's Business Travel, Expense and Invoice Predictions for 2018 and...

The business travel, expense and invoice landscape is experiencing a rapid evolution, fueled by emerging technologies, shifting employee expectations, and globalization. SAP Concur experts have taken a close look at the trends that will shape...

How to Prepare for Unexpected Events on a Business Trip

We've all heard the saying that "even the best laid plans go awry," and as travelers this phrase rings especially true. From speeding through security to scoring upgrades and knowing which hotels have the fastest Wi-Fi, we've perfected the art of...

How Far Do You Have to Go to Connect All Your Travel Data?

Business travel is booming, but not without its growing pains. Think of how things were booked just a few years back: Employees called up a travel agency and everything ran through the system. Is your T&E solution is disconnected? Find out in...

Four Tips to Prepare for Financial AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is mainstream and there is no going back now. In order to maintain competitiveness, organizations of all sizes should start planning to incorporate it into their business processes. One area in particular that has seen...

Three Reasons Why You Should be Automating Your Invoice Process

Is your finance team still sifting through stacks of paperwork, even after you’ve automated your employee expense management? A closer look will show you those are vendor invoices in various stages of approval and payment. If your gut reaction is...

How digitisation is easing the process of corporate payments for India Inc

Hate sifting through paper bills or taxi receipts to file for reimbursements at the end of a hectic office tour? Or tired of maintaining medical and food bills to claim monthly reimbursements? A clutch of tech-enabled digital payments startups is...

Why AI bots will reject or approve your reimbursements claims in future

Blockchain and IoT is enabling sophisticated data collection and analysis, resulting in actionable insights that help build the competitive advantage. Finance is today, metamorphosing into a strategically focused, value-driven function. Within...

What Does T&E Mean?

The term T&E is bandied about often in business and, as with most business acronyms, people assume that it's automatically understood. In case you have ever wondered what T&E actually stands for, we’ll explain not only what it is, but also...

Keep Your Small Business Competitive with the Right Financial Solutions

It’s not easy running a small business in today’s ever-changing marketplace. As more and more manual financial tasks go the way of automation, the availability of cloud-based expense management solutions is becoming overwhelming. It’s hard to know...

Automating Expenses is Key to Managing Your Financial Process

As employees have more ways to incur travel expenses than ever, now is the time to rethink your company's strategy to thrive in changing times. Automating your financial processes can be an important part of such a strategic plan, and research...

Use a Corporate Credit Card Program to Fight Fraud

Most business owners feel like they know their employees fairly well. Being involved in day-to-day operations means working closely with most of your staff, building both a rapport and trust. So when you first learn of fraud happening within your...

8 Reasons Why You Need to Connect Expense, Travel, and Invoice Spend

If you've considered automating your expense, travel, and invoice management processes, you're on the right track to improving your bottom line. One major benefit to automating with cloud-based software is the ability to connect your data in one...

Don’t Forget Spend Management When Moving to the Cloud

This article was originally published at GCN: Technology, Tools and Tactics for Public Sector IT on January 30, 2018. Although state and local governments are beginning to move their applications to the cloud, many are forgetting to update their...

Six Ways to Cash in on Your Business Expense Data

Business expenses aren't normally seen as a place to save money. In fact, it's quite the opposite. But if you look closely at the data, you might be surprised by the money-saving opportunities you find. Examine almost any collection of data and...

Are Your Travel and Expense Costs Topping the Charts?

It might seem counterintuitive, especially for a small business, but not buying software to help you manage expense reports can get, well, expensive. According to the Aberdeen Group, it costs SMBs on average $35.02 to process one expense report....

Three Steps to Creating a Best-Practice Expense Process

Business travel conjures mixed emotions. In one sense, it can be a huge revenue generator, as well as a sign of goodwill towards customers. On the other hand, the challenge of the entire travel and expense process—everything from filing expense...

Find the Story in Your Expense, Travel, and Invoice Data

Employee expenses, planned travel, supplier invoices - there are a lot of areas of spend for a business to track and manage. If you're in finance, it can be tricky to tie all these areas together so you can get the full picture into your outgoing...

It's Time to Connect Your Travel and Expense Data

While business travel is booming, it’s not without its challenges. A few years ago, to book business travel, employees called a corporate agency and everything ran through an approved system. Today, employees get an offer from their favorite...

How to Give Your Team the Financial Visibility it Needs

Not all surprises are good surprises. For finance teams, there is nothing more frustrating than discovering unaccounted for expenses, missing receipts, or even worse, fines. Then, when trying to complete annual reports come year-end, unexpected...

Why T&E Demands So Much Attention In Financial Services

Your margins are under enough pressure already. But with continual digital disruption—from fintechs and other recent entrants who are tightening the screws even further—costs are always in the spotlight. In this environment, you need to do...

Health Goes Beyond the Patient: the Well-Being of Life Science Organizations

The life science industry is dynamic and fast-paced. The pressure to stay in compliance, ensuring you are following the current accounting and financial regulations, and retain top-talent can easily impact the health of any business. Maintaining...

Expense, Travel, and Invoice Management: Three Processes, One Solution

On any given day, you can guarantee that one of your employees is booking a business trip, submitting an expense claim or raising a purchase order. That’s a lot of spending out of your hands – how do you keep track? Do you manage travel on one...

Five Very Good Reasons to Automate Your Accounts Payable Management

Among the most important processes a company deals with on a day-to-day basis, managing invoices is very close to the top of the list. Given how critical invoice management is to fiscal health, why are so many businesses trusting this process to...

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LTI adopts SAP Concur for travel and expense management

Bangalore, India, May 9 th , 2018: - SAP Concur®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management solutions, today announced its partnership with Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (NSE: LTI, BSE: 540005), a global technology...

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SAP Concur wins ‘Cloud Solution of the Year’ award at Inflection 2018

SAP Concur, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management solutions, was announced as the winner in the ‘Cloud Solution of the Year’ category by Inflection Awards 2018 organized by Alden Global Value Advisors.Inflection...

Take Charge of Employee Spend With an Effective Expense Policy

Are employee expenses causing confusion (and chaos) in your small business? Is your finance team or bookkeeper spending way too much time reviewing and reconciling expense reports? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then it is more...

7 Tips to Successfully Mix Business Travel with Pleasure

Juggling work and play is not always easy in today’s fast-paced world. Expectations abound with career responsibilities and busy social schedules, not to mention society’s tendency to always be plugged-in. Carving out time for vacations can be a...

Three Steps to Increasing Business Cash Flow

Businesses can’t rely on just profits to survive. An organization’s cash flow can determine if it will thrive or fail, and according to a study by U.S. Bank, 82% of business failures are due to poor cash management. Fortunately, you can prevent...

See Which Travel and Expense Solution Stands Out in the IDC MarketScape Report

Digital tools have transformed the way companies capture employee travel and business expenses. Employees are booking travel and making business purchases on mobile devices and in many different locations, meaning the cloud is quickly becoming the...

It's Time to Let Go of Your Spreadsheets

Small businesses often start tracking their expenses using spreadsheets, and it’s easy to see why. It’s not a difficult tool to learn, and it’s a heck of a lot easier than digging out your calculator. If you’re a one-person show, this approach is...

The Power of Machine Learning to Travel, Expense, and Invoice Solutions

Machine learning (ML) holds such promise for improving job satisfaction and reducing errors and costs for corporations. At SAP Concur, we use ML to make everything from travel booking to expense auditing smarter, more automated, and easier for...

Data is Key to Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset – Your People

In part one of our four-part series, we shared how organizations today still have gaps in their duty of care programs. Then, in part two, we dived deeper into what those common gaps are for travelers and employees, and the actions you can take to...

Are You the Company’s Invoice Guru? Here's How to Improve Your Processes

The reality for many small and midsize businesses is that their AP best-practices reside on the shoulders of the (often) lone employee who is the AP department. If that resourceful individual is you, it may be difficult to find the time to do...

Budget Like a Boss: How to Take Charge of Finances with Automation and Reporting

Budgeting and managing cash flow aren't for the faint of heart, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a CPA to manage your finances. Having clear visibility into your expenses and being able to easily pull reports is key, giving you the data you...

Why T&E Matters: Risk And Compliance

If you’re in financial services (or any other regulated industry, for that matter), compliance comes with the territory. The flow of new regulations is not slowing down, and maintaining compliance can be a daily struggle. Controlling costs and...

Do You Have the Visibility You Need Into Your Company’s Finances?

Keeping track of business finances is an important part of your organization’s success. Always having a pulse on money coming and going allows you to make business decisions quickly and with confidence. However, without the right reporting tools,...

The Four Most Difficult Challenges Small and Midsize Businesses Face When...

It goes without saying, but running a small business isn’t easy. The financial decision makers at small and midsize businesses know this the most intimately, because they are often the individuals held responsible for the success or failure of the...

Use This Cheat Sheet When Choosing an Expense and Travel Solution

The benefits of moving your expense and travel management to the cloud are well-documented: You get simple-to-use tools that give you greater efficiency, better visibility, and better control of your costs. It’s hardly surprising that for many...

3 Ways to Increase the Impact of Your IT team With Native SAP Integration

Becoming a best-run business requires strategic thinking and bold steps into a largely interconnected digital future. Because these steps often require the adoption and development of new technologies, IT organizations have a very big role to...

How Connected Journeys Mean Better Business Travel

If you’re looking for ways to make business travel better, look no further. IDC research, sponsored by SAP Concur, has the answers: The Connected Journey: Evolving to the Next Level in Business Travel takes a detailed look at what businesses need...

Use These Tips to Make it Easier to Organize Receipts

Receipts have a bad reputation for many good reasons. Almost every move business travelers make generates new ones, whether they’re for airfare bookings, lodging, ground transit, or even snacks on the plane. This can lead to an ever-expanding pile...

Seven Ways to Increase Small Business Efficiency

Inefficiency, like rust, never sleeps, and can suddenly creep into any corner of your business. Vigilance against inefficiency is even more critical for small to medium-sized businesses because margins for error can be thin, and small but steady...

One solution for connecting your travel, expense and invoice data

With changes in the way of how business is done, spends are becoming varied across different categories. Employees are using more than one method to incur business expenses – be it personal credit cards, digital payments or cash. Business travel...

How Businesses Can Ensure A Smooth Transition To GST

The Goods and Service Tax is a revolutionary and historic step taken by the Government of India that promises to change the way Indian business is done. Through the creation of a single taxation system, GST implementation brings simplicity to...

How companies can prepare the Gen-Y workforce to handle global travel risks

Have you heard of the ‘Bleisure Traveler’? As per research by leading travel platforms, millennial employees of today are increasingly combining business with leisure, namely ‘bleisure’. Trends show that the ability to combine business and leisure...

Expense management automation is key to managing financial process

Outdated legacy technology is one of the core causes of inefficient expense, travel, and invoice recording. These manual processes are clunky, time-consuming, vulnerable to human error, and lacks visibility across company spend. As employees, are...

These Top Trends are Driving the Need for Better Spend Management

As the expense, travel, and invoice management landscape changes, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are put in the position of having to keep up with the times or fall behind. Businesses struggling to grow and compete eventually find that their...

Thank You for 25 Years

It was the year 1993. “Sleepless in Seattle” tugged at the hearts of romantics, people listened to music on Walkman’s, Intel introduced the Pentium family of 32-bit microprocessors, and one of the world’s most popular athletes, Michael Jordan,...

There’s a Hole in My Data! Plug These Finance Gaps With Automation

Spreadsheets and other manual solutions are the cornerstones of many financial processes. I’m sure you have a few in your business, as they appear to provide documented evidence for every penny of spend. But they really mean a lot of...

Why T&E Matters: Securing Spending Data

In the wake of recent massive and highly publicized data-breach security crises, everyone is talking about cybersecurity. And they’re no longer doing it behind closed doors. Following the advent of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in...

SAP Concur gains 38500 customers and reaches 46.5 million end users globally.

Mike Eberhard, President, Concur Technologies in an interview with BW BusinessWorld discusses the changing times of business and the increase in demand for business travel. Concur Technologies over the last 15 years have gained 38500 customers and...

5 Ways it Pays to Pay Your Vendors on Time

As you’d expect from the company that provides Concur Invoice, we’ve compiled compelling data on the high costs of paper-based invoicing. On average, it costs $23 to process a paper invoice. Automating the process reduces the cost to $3.41, and...

Speed Up Your T&E Approval Process by Eliminating Ambiguity

Figuring out what is and what is not considered a travel expense should be easy, right? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Try telling this to the employee standing in the airport newsstand debating whether the bag of snacks in their hand...

How to Prepare for Responding to a Duty of Care Incident

In our four-part travel risk management series, we’ve discussed potential gaps in duty of care programs, tips for filling those gaps, and the role data plays in implementing a successful risk management (TRM) program. In our final installment, we...

Is This Outdated Process Costing Your Business?

You might be surprised to find out how much automating workflows, including invoice processing, can save your business—both in terms of your operating dollars and your sanity. A study by American Productivity and Quality Center showed that because...

Fraud in Focus: How Can You See It All?

If you’re asking yourself if fraud is truly a threat to your business, the answer is yes. It is estimated that the typical organization loses 5% of annual revenues to fraud each year. Ready to minimize fraud and maximize compliance? Get the...

What Every Travel Director Should Know About Travel and Employee Spend

Many external forces are once again shaking up the travel director’s role at enterprise-sized organizations. The shared economy, supplier direct bookings and increased responsibilities in traveler satisfaction, as well as a heightened...

Business Travel is Growing. Is Your Expense Policy Ready?

Do you find yourself spending more time than you’d like reviewing and approving employee business travel expenses? You’re not alone. Travel and expense policies are often too vague or confusing, leaving employees struggling to know how to claim...

What Every CFO Should Know About Employee Spend

Some finance teams may feel they have employee spend well managed across their organization. Reports are being sent to the CEO’s desk and, at a high level glance, they seem to be in order, within budget and pass muster. Yet, as we look at how...

How Technology Can Prevent Fraud and Save Businesses Money

If you have employees, then you have occupational fraud, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. In their new global report, they estimate a $7.1B loss per year, based on 2,690 cases analyzed. They estimate the average...

How Much Money is Your Business Throwing Away in Duplicate Invoice Payments?

If your small or midsize business is like most, you could be throwing away as much as $12,000 a month – money that could be spent on staffing, resources, innovation or any number of impactful investments. Duplicate payments are a common and...

Manual to Mobile: How and Why to Make the Shift

It’s underway For generations, businesses worked on paper. Whether it was communication, bookkeeping, or expense reports, people toiled away entering numbers on gridded sheets, checking, double checking, and correcting errors. To work on the...

Here’s How IT Can Reduce the Costs of Expense, Travel, and Invoice Management

IT teams at many companies are under intense pressure from all sides. Every day, company leadership has expectations of cost savings and greater efficiency. Users demand the same digital tools and capabilities at work as they have in their...

Airbnb Bookings on the Rise Within SAP Concur – Airbnb Listings Now Available...

Airbnb has been a valued partner to SAP Concur for years. The connection to Concur TripLink has enabled travelers to stay within company policy while booking lodging directly from Airbnb.com. Today, we’re happy to announce that in the coming...

Risky Business: What's the Cost of Doing Nothing?

When it comes to investing in technology, it’s natural to ask: what’s the benefit? One way to answer this is to look at what might happen if you don’t invest. In other words – what’s the cost of doing nothing? Our new eBook Why SAP Concur? And the...

Top 5 Business Challenges You Didn’t Know AI Could Help With

Advancing processes, policies, and procedures are primary goals when developing a business to run better. Evolving so quickly means that business challenges often arise, and employees are left to sort through the changes. This is even more...

How the Traveler’s Shift to Mobile Booking Impacts Your Travel Program

Travel technology has changed substantially in the past decade – and continues to change. In 2017 Phocuswright surveyed 2,300 travelers regarding their business travel booking habits and found that 88% of business travelers use a smartphone, more...

SAP Concur Travel Bot on Slack

According to IDC, 75% of workers will use digital assistants by 2019. At SAP Concur, we’ve seen an increased desire to have digital assistants in the workplace firsthand, with over 100 teams installing our Concur Expense bot on Slack within the...

The Top 4 Spend Management Challenges Financial Service Firms Face

From barter to bitcoin—in an industry driven by modern technology, the financial services industry has had to continually adapt to navigate through change. Heavy compliance regulations like SOX and FINRA, have also forced companies to spend their...

SAP Concur Doubles Down on Keeping Travelers Safe with Expanded Concur Locate...

Traveler safety is a growing concern in light of incidents like the shooting at a prominent Silicon Valley headquarters just down the road from my office. At the time, a faculty member with a U.S. research institution received a Concur Locate...

Why T&E Matters: Relieving Cost Pressures

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U.S. Department of Defense Selects SAP Concur to Reform its Travel System

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The Business Case for Insightful Accounts Payable

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You’re Not Too Small to be a Victim of Cyber Fraud

We’re all aware that cybercrime exists and it’s a big problem. It’s so big, in fact, that the UK Office for National Statistics reports that cybercrime and fraud account for almost half of all national incidents of crimes. Here in England and...

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Just as rapidly changing technology has facilitated employees to meet their business needs, it has created ways to empower recruiters, advancement officers, and staff within a higher education institution. Institutions depend on student enrollment...

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Constantly reshaping the global economy, technology has enabled employees and businesses to run more efficiently. Despite its clear benefits, the adoption of new technology within state and local government has been somewhat slow. And while...

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Accounts payable problems can seem like they don’t amount to a hill of beans, especially as company leadership grapples with industry challenges. In banking and financial services, those hurdles center on regulation, flattening assets management...

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It could be said that the financial services industry is built on paperwork – and if you’ve been part of it for long, you’ll no doubt agree. We’re talking, of course, about the paper processes, manual expense reports, and other legacy T&E...

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A growing business has many moving parts. When everyone on the team has more than one job to do and only a select few team members have access to corporate credit cards, it can be tempting to forego standardizing an expense policy. No matter your...

Are You Looking Out for the Safety of Your Employees on the Road?

I am on the road – a lot. I put 1,000 miles on my car and 200,000 miles on a plane each year. With the amount of time I spend traveling for business, sometimes things just don’t go as planned. Case in point: A recent business trip to the SAP...

Watch for These Two Business Trends Driving Change in Spend

By now, you’re accustomed to the pains of an ever-increasing list of priorities, and an ever-decreasing budget with which to get them done. In some areas you may be able to get by, but in others, sticking with the status quo can cost you more...

The Future Finance Leader: What You Need to Know

From machine learning to data visualization and more – what does the future look like for a rising CFO? Liverpool, 2025. Jane, the CFO of a fast-growing SMB bio-pharma company, is commuting to her office in her self-driving car. She’s updated on...

Why is Business Travel Safety Different for Women?

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How and Why the Role of Travel Manager is Changing

According to a recent survey conducted by GBTA, over the past five years the role of travel manager has evolved to deliver an even more significant value to the company. To provide this added value, travel managers with at least 15 years of...

How Fraudsters Find Weak Links in Employee Spend Areas

In part one of our four-part series, we discuss how changes in employee spending and a rise in regulations are costing organizations that have decided to “make do” when it comes to travel and spend management. But the disadvantages to using an...

Looking to Save Money on Business Travel? Start with Your Travel Policy

With business travel on the rise, companies are looking for ways to keep costs low. But when it comes to decreasing employee expenses, low-cost airfare and rideshare programs are only one part of the story. Putting a solid travel policy in place...

Prevent Higher Ed Faculty and Staff Misspending Before it Happens

Faculty and staff at colleges and universities have increasing access to and are spending more of their institution's money across more spend categories and using more payment methods than ever before. For finance departments who may still be...

Meet Our New SAP Concur Community Impact Partners

Every day at SAP Concur, we work to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. To ensure a sustainable future, not only do we strive to enable our customers to be their best, we want to achieve the same for our employees, as well as the...

How Much Could You Save With an Expense Management Solution?

Before investing in any solution or project, you want to know what the return on investment is likely to be and that it’s worth your time and money. You wouldn’t be an astute finance leader if you didn’t. Concur Expense ROI CalculatorUse our tool...

How to Tackle Three of the Top Challenges Faced by Travel Managers

According to a new GBTA survey of travel managers, the travel ecosystem continues to change. Having the right tools to tackle the issues posed by these changes can enable you to deliver even more significant value to your organization. Here are...

Are Companies Doing What They Can to Safeguard Female Travelers?

In the past two weeks, thousands of business travelers had to cancel or rebook travel due to weather-related natural disasters raging across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. I’m one of those travelers, yet because of the storm warnings, my female...

How CFOs Can Manage Out of Control Employee Spend

How we buy for business is changing. Spend categories formerly under company control have shifted to employee control, creating havoc on managed travel and expense programs. The impact this has on an organization's spend visibility and management,...

All About Compliance: What, Where, and Why You Should Care

For employees, compliance can be a daunting term as it seems to imply firm rules and strict regulations. Yet compliance doesn’t have to negatively impact employee experience. With the right tools, checks and balances, it may even be possible to...

Is Your AP Process Fully Automated? Consider These 4 Telling Scenarios

What seems like automation often isn’t. Accounts payable leaders may feel like their vendor invoice solution is automated, but in reality, it’s frequently full of faxes, scanned images, and other gunk that clogs the process. To help you get a...

Regain Your Sanity with Concur Travel and Expense

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Have you heard this phrase before? Have you ever thought about applying it to your business? How many times have you looked at a messy budget at the end of a...

How a unified IT and finance strategy helps in smart spend analysis

Too many finance leaders still rely on manual spend management tools, which are time intensive and prone to errors. In other cases, businesses use multiple solutions from different vendors to manage travel, expense and invoice processes. This...

The truth about TripLink

Often when finance leaders or travel managers hear of TripLink, they think of open booking, i.e., enabling business travelers to book wherever and however they want, outside of their company travel program. But in reality, rather than helping your...

SAP Concur Taps Jim Lucier, Chief Revenue Officer for North America and Chief...

BELLEVUE, Wash., April 29, 2019 – SAP Concur, the world’s leading provider of integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Lucier as president. A long-time veteran of SAP Concur, Jim Lucier...

Want to Grow a Business? Lay a Solid Foundation with Intelligent,...

As a finance leader, you play a critical role in helping the CEO overcome barriers to growth and expand the business. You can help drive business growth by: Concur Invoice Self-Guided DemoGrowing a business? Join our webinar with Oxford Economics...

To Be a Leader, Put People First, Your Position Second, and Pride Last

Asian culture is very big on tradition. Sometimes it’s harmless, but sometimes it’s not. And there is one tradition I absolutely do not agree with in the office: top-down hierarchy. This tradition has many names: guanxi, “giving face”, even the...

The Secret to Successfully Scaling Up Culture is Letting Go

I believe that getting culture right is the key to business growth. But at the same time, growth also poses the greatest risk to culture. It is relatively easy to foster openness, warmth, and genuine trust amongst a small group of people – but how...

Here's the Travel Expense Policy Template You Need

Setting clear guidelines is important in every aspect of business, particularly with your most valued audience – your employees. Managing expense and travel is no exception. And, with an average of 10% of a company's business budget devoted to...

Why Employee Well-Being is the Key to Sustainable Business Growth

Every small-business owner wants to see their company grow, but growth must be sustainable. And sustainability goes beyond financials – it also means prioritizing your employees’ well-being. Grow too slowly and the lack of momentum can hurt...

Automating AP and Expense Processes: The Secret to Controlling Stress

Running a business is an investment – you need to spend money to make money. But when it comes to managing your spend, there’s no room for error if you’re going to accurately forecast, budget, and invest. That means every expense report needs to...

Creating a Healthy Balance of Work and Life Can Propel Your Business Forward

Running a small business often means wearing many hats, getting pulled in multiple directions, and sometimes spending nights and weekends working. When time is our most precious commodity, it needs to be spent wisely and not on tedious tasks such...

Do You Have a Supplier Invoice Policy in Place?

A supplier invoice policy is one of those documents that every business should have. An effective policy will greatly reduce the amount of time related to the tasks of approving and processing vendor invoices, addressing exceptions, or storing,...

The One Email Leaders Should Send Daily

I’m not a big fan of competition. A lot of businesses use it to motivate their people to do better, but it also inevitably demoralizes the ones who don’t make it to the top of the top. It’s a zero-sum game where nobody wins in the long run. I’ve...

Power Your Accounts Payable by Integrating AP Processes With Your ERP

Accounting is a fundamental building block of your business. However, for many years, accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) functions remained largely unchanged. As a result, they suffered from three primary issues: siloed...

Automated Expense Management is Key to Finance Efficiency

Empower Your Finance Team with Continuous Accounting

Little and often: It’s an approach that’s recommended for self-improvement activities such as exercise and learning. It’s also recommended for keeping on top of chores such as gardening and housework. You can apply this approach at work, too. In...

The Value of Automating Your AP Process

When was the last time you calculated just how much your company spends on your accounts payable processing? If you were to take into consideration time spent on invoice reconciliation and management, along with any late fees or interest charged...

3 Ways a Travel Management Company Can Transform Your Business

According to a J.P. Morgan study, company T&E (travel & expense) is the second largest expense behind payroll. The good news is that it can largely be controlled—if you have the right tools and expertise. The bad news is a lot companies...

Innovating VAT Reclaim Through Automation with Taxback International

As we prepare to exhibit at SAP Concur Fusion for the ninth year in a row, we can’t help but reflect on all the fun we’ve had at Fusion events across the globe - from Las Vegas, New Orleans and Seattle to Tokyo, London, Paris and more. It’s been...

EY Sheds Light on 3 Key Business Travel Risk Areas

Global risks are on the rise for companies, and they are coming from new sources. Executives must respond to new uncertainties such as trade wars and emboldened regulatory authorities, and understand how these changes apply across a company’s...

The Impact of Online Booking Tool Configurations on Global Travel

Whether you’re planning to “go global” or if your company already has a globalized corporate travel program, it is crucial to understand the role of your online booking platform. The technical configuration of the tool, along with strategic agency...

Introducing SAP Business Exchange - A Community to Help You Grow and Connect

Introducing SAP Business Exchange - A Community to Help You Grow and Connect www.sap-business-exchange.com At Fusion, our annual customer conference, we unveiled our refreshed and enhanced community site, SAP Business Exchange. This community is...

How to Improve Cashflow: Top Tips for Finance

When your business uses manual, paper-based finance processes, all the information you need is there, but finding it in a timely manner is hard. That means it’s hard to keep track of cashflow – and even harder to improve it. Finance automation...

Use Corporate Cards and P-Cards to Gain Visibility and Control of Employee Spend

As we continue exploring how to better manage employee initiated spend, this article focuses on using corporate cards and P-cards as a means to facilitate unstructured spend visibility and control. Furthermore, it highlights the benefits of...

Expense Automation and Mobile AI: Time to Embrace a New Norm

I recently visited the head of sales at a retail company and had just shown him the machine learning receipt capture technology on the SAP Concur mobile app. What he said surprised me. He was struggling to see the benefit their team would gain as...

Compliance and Fraud: What You Can't See Can Cost You

As the way in which we do business and the ways that employees spend on behalf of organizations continue to increase in complexity, issues around compliance and fraud are also increasing in complexity. Many organizations currently perceive that...

Do You Have All Your Business Risks Covered?

For finance managers, it’s very easy to focus on the risks that fall into your remit: failing to comply with legislation, breaching travel and expense policy, falling victim to fraud, and the like. But businesses face other risks too. And as a...

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When driving around for work, you have enough to worry about. Whether you’re a saleswoman on the way to close a big deal or a doctor off to make a house call, you should be focusing on the task at hand rather than calculating and recording the...

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You Need a Risk Management Plan. Here's How to Create One

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Guidance for Growth: The Finance Leader’s Role in Business Expansion

It’s a fact: When small and midsize businesses (SMBs) grow, time and money get stretched to the limit. Companies not only hire more people, invest in new equipment and work space, and buy more materials to produce products, but their employees...

THE NEW RULE FOR MONEY – A ROBUST EXPENSE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Picture this – Every once in a month, in three months or even six, you and I probably take time out of important work matters to sift through hundreds of physical receipts, to log and process our expenses, manually into a system. This is a...

Catalyzing Economic Growth Through Business Travel

In the corporate world, companies continue to uphold the importance of in-person meetings for building and maintaining long-term work relationships and closing business deals. Business travel helps companies expand their business, meet new...

Why Digitisation of Corporate Reimbursement is the new imperative for the...

Digitization is sweeping across Corporate India. Everywhere you turn around, you will hear companies adopting digital strategies and automation processes to make their lives easier. The BFSI industry has been leading from the front here – cashless...

Data privacy an important element, even for travel companies

As Newton put it many years ago, ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’. As Digital opportunity rises and companies rush to implement digital transformation, the opposite reaction to this are rising data breaches and thefts. It’s...

Travel tech to revamp SMEs

In India - the world’s fastest-growing business travel markets - a considerable percentage of the rise in overall corporate travel is attributed to the rise of SMEs. Standing at the US$30 billion mark, corporate travel has huge potential with a...

Here’s What Companies Should Do to Safeguard their Female Business Travellers

The strongest growth in travel from India in recent years has been from business travelers, and this led to a huge increase in business travel expenditures and budgets. With the growing trend of Indian women traveling on work, companies need to...

It’s the Time to be on CLOUD: Cloud Computing to shape the Travel Expense &...

Digital transformation has been one of the biggest buzzwords of 2018, and the travel expense industry has not been immune to this trend. But, when we get down to the brass tacks, it’s a different picture. The reality is that even in the current...

Advancements in AI and ML to disrupt business travel

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SAP Concur Provides Real-Time Visibility and Spend Control with New Budget...

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SAP Concur Provides Real-Time Visibility and Spend Control with New Budget...

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20 Predictions for 2020 From SAP Concur

In today’s technology-driven business world, changes in customer expectations, societal shifts, and industry disruptions rule. That’s why leaders at SAP Concur, and those from our parent company, SAP, think constantly about trends with the...

How Automation is Changing the Shape of Manufacturing

Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) to name a few – the exciting smart technologies available today, and coming tomorrow, is nothing short of a new industrial revolution. As technology...

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Ask the Experts: Is My Fraud Prevention and Detection Best-In-Class?

PwC’s 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey finds that 49% of organizations globally have been a victim of fraud, an increase from the survey’s previous 36%. It’s no surprise then, that with instances of fraud rising, your organization may...

How Automation Makes It Easier to Comply With Company Travel Policies

Travel and expense fraud isn’t a finance problem. It’s a human problem. When employees book their own travel and then report their expenses, it can be easy to accidentally or purposely fall outside of the corporate travel policy. Meanwhile, a...

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HEIGHTENED NEED FOR TRAVEL & EXPENSE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AMONGST INDIAN...

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SAP Concur and Thomas Cook India Strengthen Partnership to Streamline Travel...

Bangalore, India, September 05, 2019 – SAP Concur®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management solutions, today announced the commitment of its partnership with Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., a leading integrated travel and...

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Concur empowers businesses to protect travelers with Concur Locate and Active...

Business travel is increasing and projected to reach $1.6 trillion by 2020 according to Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Foundation. With heightened geopolitical uncertainties, it is crucial that businesses take the step to ensure the...

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Control Spending With Less: How to Add Oversight Without Adding Overhead

If you had an army of people to watch over your army of employees, you could probably keep up with their spending. But you don’t, and it might just be a little cost prohibitive if you did. So how do you stay on top of what’s going out the door?...

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure: The Need for Time and Expense...

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What Does Automating Expense Reporting Have to Do with Boosting Productivity...

More than you may think. According to Gallup’s latest “State of the Global Workplace” report, just 15% of full-time employees are highly involved in and enthusiastic about their work and workplace. This means 85% – nearly all employees across...

Bring Some “Grit” Into Your Spend Management Program

Jason Grunin, Assistant VP of Business and Energy for the University of Tulsa, understands the challenges that commonly hinder spend management programs. It wasn’t too long ago his organization was feeling the many pains and frustrations itself,...

Making the Most of the New Consumer Products Marketplace

2018 is set to be a better year for UK consumers than 2017. Unemployment is low and inflation is expected to ease off, giving more spending power to the people. The same is true on the other side of the Atlantic – all of which bodes well for the...

Machine Learning in Concur Mobile

Many SAP Concur users will recognize the ExpenseIt service or app as one that, in the background, automatically extracts information such as amount, date, and expense type from your uploaded receipt. To perform the task, ExpenseIt uses an array of...

Utilizing Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive...

By Mark Linver, managing director of Deloitte Life Sciences Advisory, and Jack Tanselle, Managing Director at Deloitte. Life sciences manufacturers continue to operate in an increasingly complex business and regulatory environment. The potential...

Better manage your cash flow and liquidity for Covid-19 resilience

Explore the issues and actions your company can take to manage cash pressures during these unprecedented times. It's said that "Cash is king". In times like this, it is vital to know how potential disruptions to operations can affect your...

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