On the eve of the traditional end-of-year holidays, it's going to be a red week on the expense motorway, with a code black to look forward to on Friday 19 December... Like Bison Fûté on the way to the holidays, Concur is expecting busy traffic for French accounting departments. The specialist in business travel-related expenses points out that Friday 20 December last year was the busiest day of 2013. With some 500,000 receipts downloaded via the Concur application, activity then recorded a spectacular increase (+259%) compared to the annual daily average... On 19 December, according to Concur, "companies will have to deal with double the average daily volume of expense claims, [and] employees will be rushing to submit their claims".Concur also points out that Monday is generally the most frequent day of the week for filing expense claims. Concur also points out that Mondays are generally the most common day of the week for employees to fill in their expense claims. Logically enough, Concur is also quick to point out the time savings generated by its online solutions, both for filling in expense claims (60% faster according to Concur) and for being reimbursed (40%). Another finding of the study is the breakdown of expenses by category. It shows that hotels account for an average of 34% of expenditure, just ahead of air transport (33%) and meals and entertainment (26%). Other data from the study include available online.
