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Rolf Fokkema
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Experience on control of travel costs
Hi everyone,

Please interupt for for discussion. Here part one.

I would like to share my expierence with the control on travel costs. However this experience is from 2004, I guess it is still actual.

Before the year 2000 at UPC HQ, travel costs were invoice by Carlson Wagonlit, afterwords by World Travel BTI.
Payments were linked on a creditcard, which monthend directy debited our company account.
Carlson Wagonlit was linked after a while to Visa, World Travel BTI was linkend to American Express.

Somehow by discussion for payment with Carlson Wagonlit, it seemed that items sometimes were invoiced twice. Using a different invoicenumber with the same travel specification. There were no reasonable explainations about it. It stayed on my mind as an curious event.

The more that travel by air was increased, the more the salesargument of a creditcard came in place for directly accounting. Instead to treat Visa in the ledger as a bankaccount, the card statement became a specification for the debiting.

Visacard statements for traveling have an unexceptable failure. In the column of the invoices numbers, digits fell off by the length, making it quit a puzzle. ( Sudoku wasn't known at that time).

By rapidly growth of UPC's HQ accounting department, focus came on expenditure and less on the quality and procedures. Amex came in by e-mail for an upload into Oracle.

end part 1.
- 07 Feb 2009, 6:42 pm
Rolf Fokkema wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please interupt for for discussion. Here part one. > > I would like to share my expierence with the control on travel costs. > However this experience is from 2004, I guess it is still actual. > > Before the year 2000 at UPC HQ, travel costs were invoice by Carlson > Wagonlit, afterwords by World Travel BTI. > Payments were linked on a creditcard, which monthend directy debited > our company account. > Carlson Wagonlit was linked after a while to Visa, World Travel BTI > was linkend to American Express. > > Somehow by discussion for payment with Carlson Wagonlit, it seemed > that items sometimes were invoiced twice. Using a different > invoicenumber with the same travel specification. There were no > reasonable explainations about it. It stayed on my mind as an curious > event. > > The more that travel by air was increased, the more the salesargument > of a creditcard came in place for directly accounting. Instead to > treat Visa in the ledger as a bankaccount, the card statement became > a specification for the debiting. > > Visacard statements for traveling have an unexceptable failure. In > the column of the invoices numbers, digits fell off by the length, > making it quit a puzzle. ( Sudoku wasn't known at that time). > > By rapidly growth of UPC's HQ accounting department, focus came on > expenditure and less on the quality and procedures. Amex came in by > e-mail for an upload into Oracle. > > end part 1.
Hans W. Waldvogel Premium Member Group moderator
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Re: Experience on control of travel costs
Oh please continue that story! It seems so chracteristical.

HWW
- 09 Feb 2009, 10:49 am
Hans W. Waldvogel wrote: > Oh please continue that story! It seems so chracteristical. > > HWW

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