{"id":3589,"date":"2025-05-02T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:54:02","slug":"best-practices-for-employee-reimbursements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/best-practices-for-employee-reimbursements\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices for Employee Reimbursements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Best_Practices_for_Employee_Reimbursements.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3590\" style=\"width:344px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Best_Practices_for_Employee_Reimbursements.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Best_Practices_for_Employee_Reimbursements-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Best_Practices_for_Employee_Reimbursements-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Using new technology to report and track employee business expenses can be easier and more accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MODERNIZE REPORTING<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of using paper to report employee\u2019s expenses you can simplify the process with a virtual expense reporting system that lets employees photograph and submit receipts from an app. This prevents the need for your accounting staff to keep paper files or scan receipts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESTABLISH ACCOUNTABILITY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Inform managers and supervisors about the company\u2019s expense policies so they can hold their teams responsible for following them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure high levels of accountability in this area, give managers an easy way to access to approve submitted expenses on their employees\u2019 expense reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TIME IS VITAL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No one wants to pay $1,000 in travel costs out-of-pocket for a business trip and then wait for weeks while those expenses are reviewed, approved, and reimbursed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To avoid delays, create service-level timeframes that work for both the company and employees. 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MODERNIZE REPORTING Instead of using paper to report employee\u2019s expenses you can simplify the process with a virtual expense reporting system that lets employees photograph and submit receipts from an app. This prevents the need for your accounting staff &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/best-practices-for-employee-reimbursements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Practices for Employee Reimbursements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expenses","category-newletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Best Practices for Employee Reimbursements - Conner Ash<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.connerash.com\/blog\/best-practices-for-employee-reimbursements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Practices for Employee Reimbursements - Conner Ash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Using new technology to report and track employee business expenses can be easier and more accurate. 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