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Simplifying T&E approvals: Smart Workflows for efficient expense management
Why T&E approvals frustrate everyone & how to fix it “Compliance and fraud prevention take teamwork,” explains finance expert Artin Rodriguez,...
MoreRevolutionizing finance: How AI workbenches are transforming workflows
AI workflow automation makes finance teams more efficient AI agents are creating a fundamental shift in how we think about automation. These aren't...
MoreUsing AI to inform expense insights for managers
In an ideal world, managers would never need to sift through expense reports or decipher complex dashboards to understand their business’s spending....
MoreWelcoming change: Keys to successful AI implementation in AP
Wende Burgess, Associate Partner at CCP Global, joined us at AppZen on Tour in Dallas to share her expert perspective on the critical change...
MoreTop 5 trends for AI-adopting finance leaders
How can Finance use AI to solve business challenges? CFOs and heads of Finance from industry-leading Fortune 500 companies, meeting at our annual...
MoreEmbracing the AI workforce: A framework for success
As Director of Customer Success at AppZen, I’ve had a lot of conversations with customers about a topic that's on everyone's minds, lately: how to...
MoreIntroducing AppZen Coach: AI-powered recommendations to optimize your company spend
The finance expert you never had to hire Regularly making effective expense policy changes and improvements to business processes require data to...
MoreHere’s why finance teams are training generative AI coworkers
Incorporating disrupter technologies like AI–especially generative AI–always involves a human element. At AppZen on Tour in Dallas, our customers...
MoreHype or ROI? AI’s impact on finance organizations
Not a day goes by that you don’t hear about artificial intelligence or generative AI and its effects on culture, society, and business. Building a...
MoreA finance leaders’ guide to assessing generative AI
Don't be the guinea pig. Finance leaders are always searching for solution providers who understand their pain points and can offer ways to improve...
MoreAn AI journey: The revolutionary role of Transformers in finance AI
Co-founder Kunal Verma explains the role of Transformers in developing generative AI and how they’ve contributed to AppZen’s success. Kunal...
MoreBiden’s Executive Order on AI and the EU AI Act: Business as usual?
When the Biden Administration released its Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence on...
MoreAI in your AP inbox? 6 important questions to ask
Is your AP inbox overwhelmed? Demand is growing for finance solutions that use artificial intelligence to handle the everyday manual tasks in...
MoreModeling good behavior: The 3 AI models Expense Audit customers love most
Compliance and spend reduction are critical to the success of any organization. From the most junior auditor to the CFO, each member of the finance...
MoreUpskilling, genAI, and our customers take center stage
Our customers actively partner with us to push the boundaries of what AI can do. At AppZen on Tour in Chicago, we continued the tradition of...
MoreAccording to our survey, finance teams are overwhelmed by email. Could generative AI help?
Spending 7 hours a week on email? According to our survey, you’re not alone. In the fast-paced world of finance, efficiency is key. In June and July...
MoreGenerative AI meets AP processing: the efficiency of AppZen Inbox
At AppZen, we're always looking for ways to make your financial operations more efficient and effective. That’s why we're excited to introduce our...
MoreHow AI simplifies India’s e-invoice processing
The e-invoicing mandate for India is finally a reality. Businesses registered on the GST portal are now issuing e-invoices to their customers. This...
More5 ways to hit company savings goals with AI
As a finance manager, one of your primary responsibilities is to help your company reach its savings goals. Achieving these goals requires a...
MorePutting on your AI oxygen mask: automating GL code assignment for non-PO-backed invoices
Accurately assigning general ledger (GL) codes for invoices that are missing purchase orders (POs) is harder than climbing Mt. Everest while holding...
MoreEverything you need to know about VAT and expense reports
Although VAT is a common expense topic, few finance teams know precisely what it is or how to approach recovery for the maximum benefit. Here are the...
MoreAre your corporate expense policies getting lost in translation?
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at how finance teams can verify foreign language expense receipts. This ongoing series...
MoreThe 3Ps of expense compliance verification: pervasive, preventive, prepayment
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at the limitations of existing compliance verification and how to transform it into a...
MoreThink twice before submitting unauthorized expenses. Seniority and performance may not save you from being fired.
Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen and how you can take advantage of our solutions’ capabilities....
More6 ways AI can improve your spend audit process
Is your finance team busy and overworked, but too hesitant to change their spend audit processes? As time-consuming and frustrating as manual expense...
MoreWhen it comes to corporate expense audits, one size does not fit all
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at why amount verification per expense type can help control excessive spend and policy...
MoreEmpowering Auditors to Act: Combining integrated case management with prepayment risk identification
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at why integrated case management is such an essential part of making expense audit programs...
MoreManaging unseen duplicate spend in finance departments
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at the issue of duplicate spend across both invoices and employee expenses. This ongoing...
MoreStop employee corporate credit card fraud in its tracks
In this segment of our “Did You Know?” series, we explore how AppZen’s Expense Audit enforces corporate credit card compliance and stops employee...
MoreCustom dashboards provide answers to your critical T&E challenges
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we explore the custom dashboard capabilities of Expense Audit and how it helps you discover new...
MoreWorried about Sunshine Act compliance? Here’s a simple reporting solution
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at simplifying HCP/One Payment compliance to meet the requirements of the Sunshine Act. This...
MoreYour expenses never stop changing. Neither should your expense analytics.
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at on-demand expense analytics and how management dashboards can help you take a more...
MoreThe top 3 expense audit analytics tools you can’t live without
In this edition of our “Did You Know?” series, we look at the use of self-service reporting and analytics within the finance department. This ongoing...
MoreYou can’t manage what you can’t measure: Getting a 360-degree view of spend data
Our ongoing series “Did you know” highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
More3 Reasons to use AI to automate financial compliance
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
MoreAre repeat offenders staying under your expense audit radar?
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
MoreThe Autonomous Index: A framework for CFOs moving from automation to autonomy
Imagine a self-driving car asking the driver at every intersection which way it should go or whether the road is clear. This is not very useful...and...
MoreFinding the Right Focus - Finance Analytics to the Power of Ten
Charles and Ray Eames’ documentary, Powers of Ten, is one of the most famous short films ever made and illustrates beautifully the importance of...
MoreHow AppZen helps you stop duplicate spend
Our ongoing “Did you know” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
MoreFinance teams really can afford to audit 100% of corporate expenses prior to reimbursement
Welcome to our new series of blogs on expense auditing issues, trends, and automation best practices. Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights...
MoreVerifying restaurant receipts requires more than meets the eye
Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
MoreExpense Audit receipt verification lets you know what is on every receipt
Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
MoreOut-of-policy doesn’t have to mean out of the company’s pocket
Our ongoing “Did you know?” series highlights the capabilities and benefits of AppZen Expense Audit, bringing you deeper into what makes it tick and...
MoreAI Automation for Your AP Inbox with SAP Ariba and AppZen
Accounts payable teams using SAP Ariba have been struggling with long cycle times and high-cost invoice processing for years. These teams find...
MoreThe Benefits of Autonomous Invoice Processing for CFOs
Over the last 10+ years, very little has changed in the way we perform the accounts payable process. We have seen incremental improvements to invoice...
MoreIs Your Expense Management System Ready for Hybrid Workers?
T&E ramping back up We keep hearing about companies preparing to return to some sort of normalcy. As vaccine programs continue apace and...
MoreNew T&E fees: Is your expense claim system ready?
As business travel resumes, added T&E fees are making a comeback. During the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines, hotels, and other travel-related services...
MoreAutonomous AP: How AI is transforming Accounts Payable for modern finance teams
AI has been transforming the worlds of driving, advertising, e-commerce, personal assistants, and customer service. Now, AI for Accounts Payable is...
MoreRobotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI set to drive next-level modern finance
Robotic process automation is a very, very hot topic at the moment. RPA technology automates basic repetitive, typically manual, processes and...
MoreNo, you can’t game your expense report with food products renamed as office supplies
Recently, Instagram posts went viral from a Toronto restaurant (@goodfortuneburger) that renamed its items as WFH expenses with the intention of...
MoreWhat's the ideal turnaround time for expense report reimbursement?
Philosophies on the timing of employee expense report reimbursements diverge.
More5 reasons you need a crisis to drive transformation
There’s a saying that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. What it actually represents is an opportunity–and the space–for change that normally...
More7 ways to automate your unique T&E policies with AI
No two corporate T&E policies are exactly alike. AppZen Expense Audit uses artificial intelligence (AI) to give enterprise finance teams the power to...
MoreTripActions Liquid and AppZen just made life easier for road warriors and finance leaders
Underlying the power of AppZen’s spend auditing capabilities are the layers of our AI-driven platform, which audits 100% of spend, uncovers problems...
More9 business spend duplicates only AI can catch
What prevention methods does your company have in place to prevent duplicate spend? Most modern invoice automation systems can look out for two...
MoreNo one likes approving expense reports — Here are 4 ways AI can help
Hate expense reports? You’re not alone.
MoreShould You Approve Work Related Expenses Without Receipts? | Appzen
Anyone who has ever submitted an expense report after a business trip knows how stressful it can be to scramble to find receipts for everything –...
MoreWhat is AppZen’s Compliance Index?
The AppZen Compliance Index (ACI) is one of the key attributes we use to identify and assign risk to an expense report. ACI is analogous to a FICO...
MoreSunshine Act compliance: All you need to know
What is the Sunshine Act? Its full name is actually The Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) and it was designed to boost transparency around the...
MoreThe implications of AI: How we've integrated ethics into our culture and decision-making
In October 2017, I attended a technical talk where hundreds of people gathered to learn about the future of artificial intelligence. The panelists...
MoreAI Vanguard Awards: Waqas Aman, Airbus
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MoreWhere we go from here: 7 absolutely critical investments for building the AI platform for modern finance teams
Today we announced that we raised a $50 million series C round of funding, bringing our total investment to more than $100 million. We’re excited...
MoreHow AppZen applies self-driving car technology to reduce business spend
Computer vision is a widely growing field within artificial intelligence. Widely used applications include autonomous driving, social media face...
MoreDouble dipping or honest mistake? Detect duplicate expenses before payment
Imagine you’re rummaging through your luggage and you find an old receipt from a previous business trip several months ago. What should you do? Try...
MoreTraining an AI platform: A product perspective
Traditional software development is fairly straightforward: The product team creates mock-ups and defines user flows, then engineering designs it and...
MoreWe wanted to really understand our customers – here’s what we did
In our company all-hands meeting one Friday afternoon, our CEO Anant Kale spoke about the importance of customer centricity. He stressed that even...
MoreWhen are normal business activities deemed “bribery”?
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was enacted in 1977 to prohibit US businesses and others subject to the law from bribing foreign officials...
MoreAppZen raises $35 million to supercharge growth in enterprise AI platform for spend audits
Today we announced the closing of $35 million Series B financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing Series A investor Redpoint Ventures and...
MoreWhich country has the most expense report fraud?
Employees in different countries behave very differently in accordance with company expense policies, according to new data released from the AppZen...
More3 common invoicing scams and how to avoid them
Invoicing and payments fraud can take a variety of forms: invoices from fictitious companies, invoices for products that were never delivered, for...
MoreAppZen Finance AI 101
The AppZen artificial intelligence platform uses a combination of deep learning, machine learning, and semantic modeling to comprise our artificial...
MoreAppZen partners with Coupa software to extend audit capabilities for Coupa customers
AppZen is a new partner in the expanding CoupaLink program, part of Coupa Software, a leading business spend management platform. CoupaLink allows...
MoreNew funding from Redpoint to support AI in the enterprise
We have some exciting news to share: we’ve raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures and including Resolute Ventures, our lead...
MoreWho's to blame when accidental expense report fraud occurs?
Blame it on sticky fingers, late nights, or month end deadlines. Employee misconduct can sometimes just be an honest mistake. Yes, there are...
MoreManager approval process for T&E: Useless or useful?
We once sat in an interview with a Manager who told us, step by step, his process to approve his team’s expense reports. His story went something...
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