SmartTalks Web Seminar Series

Expert information in the field of
expense management.

Data is King: Strategies for Best in Class Performance
Presenting on June 21, 2007

T&E expenses account for a fairly significant portion of total operation expenses. According to a recent Aberdeen Group study, the reduction of corporate T&E spend is the top factor in 54% of the enterprises surveyed. This web seminar will provide corporate executives with strategies for best in class performance, business value findings, and action steps.

Results of a recent Aberdeen Group survey will be presented and attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the May 2007 report, Travel & Entertainment Technologies and Services.

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Optimize Your Travel & Entertainment Corporate Card: How Moen Achieved 94% Card Utilization
Presented February 20, 2007

Organizations are under continuous pressure to optimize and improve compliance to their corporate card program. This web seminar will provide corporate executives with insight into how one organization was able to optimize their T&E card program.

Learn how Moen achieved a 94% card utilization of their T&E transactions on their corporate card. In this web seminar you’ll learn how Moen was able to maximize their corporate card usage , reduce T&E costs and increase employee satisfaction with their travel program. You will gain a better understanding of

• The value in maximizing your card usage
• Best practices for corporate card optimization
• How to evaluate and implement a best in class integrated expense management and card program

Travel & Entertainment Expenses: Report on Challenges Companies Face
Originally presented on November 15, 2006

Companies are under continuous pressure to improve compliance to policies reduce costs and enhance process efficiencies. T&E expenses account for a fairly significant portion of total operating expenses. This web seminar will provide corporate executives with insight into T&E expense management challenges for organizations of all sizes. By attending this Web-based seminar, executives with responsibility for financial and T&E management will learn the results of an Aberdeen Group study. The report, which is based on over 300 survey responses focuses on the challenges companies face in efficiently managing their T&E expense category. Additional report findings include key factors driving enterprises to improve the management of T&E expenses as well as prioritized strategies for the next 12 to 24 months. Aberdeen will also provide insights into the best practices used by top performing company’s to achieve higher efficiency and lower costs.
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Closing the Loop: Corporate Card & Expense Management Integration
Originally presented on May 17, 2006

By attending this web seminar, executives with reponsibility for financial and T&E travel management will learn the 4 components on an integrated travel expense management program. It will provide financial and travel management executives with objective insight into developing a Best-in-Class program designed to 1) Increase travel policy compliance, 2) Better analyze travel patterns and spend profiles, 3) Identify areas to target for T&E savings, and 4) Explore the dissemination of fiduciary responsibility to the traveler.
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Global Travel Management: Where To Begin...
Originally presented on January 25, 2006

By attending this web-based seminar, executives with responsibility for financial and T&E travel management will gain a better understanding regarding structuring an effective global travel management program. Participants will also learn more about how an automated T&E management program can support the best practices of global travel management policies, VAT reclamation, and corporate card management.
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Vendor Negotiations: Know What You Want and Ask For It
Originally presented on November 16, 2005

By attending this Web-based seminar, executives with responsibility for financial and T&E travel management will gain a better understanding on how this organization was able to structure a scalable and sustainable vendor negotiation process. Participants will also learn more about how an automated T&E management program can manage and provide key data to evaluate and monitor travel spend.
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Best Practices in T&E Management: Visibility & Control of Meeting Spend
Originally presented on October 19, 2005

Executives with responsibility for corporate travel and meetings management within their companies will gain a better understanding regarding structuring a compliant & scalable meetings management program. This web seminar has been approved for 1.0 CAPP credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Best Practices in Travel & Entertainment Expense Management
Originally presented on September 21, 2005

Executives with financial and T&E management responsibilities will learn the latest drivers for travel cost management, recent successful expense reconciliation automation initiatives, and issues on the horizon to consider as they seek to reduce costs, risks, and inefficiencies across employee-initiated expenditures. This web seminar has been approved for 1.0 CAPP credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Effectively Managing T&E Operations: IRS Regs and Tax Implications
Originally presented on August 24, 2005

By attending this web-based seminar, executives with responsibility for financial and T&E management, will gain a better understanding regarding how to find key information resources, IRS private rulings, and electronic storage processes. This web seminar has been approved for 1.0 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Gelco August SmartTalks Presentation (263KB pdf)
IRS Rules & Guidance Slide.pdf (58KB pdf)

Sarbanes-Oxley and Beyond: Institutionalize Your Governance Practices
Originally presented on August 4, 2005

This web seminar will provide corporate executives with key business practices to assist organizations of all sizes to improve governance programs and how an integrated program can improve their internal controls to prevent and detect fraud and negligence. This web seminar has been approved for 1.0 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Through Automation
Originally presented on June 22, 2005

This web seminar will provide corporate executives with best practices in using IT to gain business benefits within their legislated compliance programs and insight into how to improve their internal controls to prevent and detect fraud and negligence. This web seminar has been approved for 0.50 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Improving Internal Controls: Identify and Prevent Fraud
Originally Presented on May 25, 2005

This webcast will provide corporate executives with insight into how to improve their internal controls to prevent and detect fraud. This web seminar has been approved for 0.50 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Structuring a Global T&E Management Program
Originally Presented on March 11, 2005

This webcast will provide travel management executives with a six-part plan to support their companies' global expansion and show how to build a business case built on industry best practices that can help with multinational travel activity, country consolidation and better support international travel program management harmony. This web seminar has been approved for 0.50 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Cost Cutting Through Better Travel Policy Management
Originally Presented on February 23, 2005

Learn why you need a roadmap to travel policy management excellence and how managing the entire business trip life cycle will help you cut your T&E costs, increase compliance and make on-going improvements easier through better benchmarking. This web seminar has been approved for 0.50 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Top Ten Financial Reporting Challenges in 2005
Originally Presented January 25, 2005

This web seminar provides executives with financial and expense management responsibilities with a better understanding of upcoming industry trends and challenges. You will also learn more about SAS 70 and its role in helping companies comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and why compliance continues to be the focus in 2005. This web seminar has been approved for 0.75 CAPP Credits from the International Accounts Payable Professional (IAPP) association.
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Streamline Your EMA Process and Maximize ROI: Imaging and Workflow
Originally Presented November 17, 2004

Attendees will learn about Imaging and Workflow and their role in lowering T&E management costs, increasing policy compliance and creating operational efficiencies.
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Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation 404: Taking Control Through Expense Management
Originally Presented October 27, 2004

Executives will gain a better understanding of compliance risk relative to their business and a defensible approach to satisfying internal control, security and privacy requirements as they relate to expense management. Participants will also understand the importance of corporate governance around travel and entertainment spending.
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