Transparency = Moderation = Cost Savings
The debacle on MPs expenses continues as the Prime Minister intervenes at the eleventh hour with an embarrassing U-turn and an announcement that plans to amend the Freedom of Information laws to exempt MPs expenses would be abandoned.
It’s been widely speculated in the media that the reason why MPs are so desperate to conceal their past expenses is that said expenses must be immensely embarrassing.
This brings us to the issue that lies at the heart of this soap opera and it is the same issue that has motivated many of our customers to graduate from the non-transparent paper based expenses process:
If your expenses process is transparent and allows for expense claim data to be analysed over time, then employees will moderate their behaviour and your organisation will spend less on travel and entertainment.
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