Conference Description:

Course Description :
With companies everywhere eyeing the bottom line, insistence on compliance with travel & entertainment policy is becoming more commonplace. What's more, the IRS has also been taking an equally harsh stance, so compliance must now not only be to the company policies but also IRS rules. Otherwise, you could end up answering not only to the CFO but also the IRS–and that is truly ugly.
Learning Objectives:

After this session, you will be able to:

Integrate IRS requirements into your organization's T&E policy
Create processes to address use of new services such as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb etc.
Develop tactics to reduce the number of employees submitting expense reports late
Build a policy that deals with employee misuse or abuse of the travel and entertainment policy
Incentivize managers to approve in a more timely and appropriate manner
Implement strong controls to deter expense reimbursement fraud
Identify common expense reimbursement frauds some employees employ
Implement strong controls to deter expense reimbursement fraud
Create a tight T&E policy that will prevent misconceptions about your T&E policy
Craft a strong travel and entertainment policy
Identify issues missing from your current policy
Address effectively all the issues that should be included in an suitable corporate travel policy
Create an appropriate auditing process of employee expense reports
Effectively update your existing policy
Pinpoint weak language in your current policy and tighten it to stop cash leaks
Eliminate common expense reimbursement headaches
Who Will Benefit:

Accounts payable manager
Accounts payable director
Accounts payable supervisor
Accounting manager
Controller
Assistant controller
Accounts payable associate
Accountant
Accounting manager
Disbursements manager
Assistant accounts payable manager
T&E professionals
Expense reporting professionals
T&E manager
Field of Study:

Accounting: 10 CPE Credits
Program Delivery Method: Group-Live
Program Level: Intermediate
Advance Preparation/Program Prerequisites: None