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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Live Webcast

Expense Reporting Automation (X4-7347175)

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
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2 CPE Credits in SK

OVERVIEW

Managing and auditing employee spending on personal and corporate credit cards is a challenge everywhere. Legacy manual expense reporting preparation and approval processes are tedious and repetitive and are an excellent place to start your company's use of business process automation solutions. This session will cover a variety of expense workflow tools which use technologies and features like bank feeds, mobile receipt capture, OCR data extraction/filling, automated policy enforcement, and artificial intelligence-based validation to automate and eliminate the tedium. Attend this session and learn how to use automation and cure the expense reporting blues for you and your employees.

DESIGNED FOR

Business professionals seeking to improve expense reporting process

BENEFITS

  • Select at least two types of employee expenses that are identified as very risky by the course
  • Identify at least two common expense reimbursement fraud schemes
  • Choose responses that explain how bank feeds are different from data extraction/OCR applications
  • Identify at least two comprehensive expense reporting solutions discussed in detail during the course which offer both OCR data extraction and mobile receipt capture
  • Explain how artificial intelligence can be used to identify unusual items in expense reports

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Overview of selected expense and corporate credit card reporting and management platforms
  • Major fraud schemes associated with expense reporting
  • Extracting and importing transaction data from bank feeds and matching to receipts

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

Fundamental knowledge of expense reporting fundamentals

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

Thomas Stephens

Thomas G. Stephens, CPA, CITP, CGMA

K2 Enterprises

Thomas G. (Tommy) Stephens, Jr., CPA.CITP, CGMA Shareholder, K2 Enterprises Woodstock, Georgia tommy@k2e.com Thomas G. Stephens, Jr., received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree (Major in Accounting) from Auburn University in 1985. Upon graduation, Mr. Stephens began working for an Atlanta-based public accounting firm. After earning his designation as a Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Stephens worked for BellSouth Corporation in Atlanta as an Internal Auditor. After two years as an auditor, he was promoted to Staff Manager and then Operations Manager of the Internal Audit Group. In 1991, he transferred to the Comptrollers’ department of BellSouth and served as Manager of the Cost Accounting organization. While working full-time at BellSouth Corporation, Mr. Stephens also attended graduate school, earning a Masters of Science (Major in Finance) from Georgia State University in 1992. Mr. Stephens left BellSouth in 1994 and opened his public accounting practice in the metropolitan Atlanta area. In his practice, Mr. Stephens provides accounting, tax, and consulting services to individuals and a wide variety of small and emerging businesses. Additionally, in 1995 he began authoring and presenting continuing professional education courses to accounting and finance professionals. In 2003, Mr. Stephens affiliated with K2 Enterprises and in 2007 he joined the firm as a partner. To date, he has lectured nationally on subjects such as internal controls for small businesses, technology strategies, computer hardware and software applications, tax strategies and compliance, and financial accounting standards and applications. Over the past twenty-two years, Mr. Stephens has presented over 2,100 educational sessions to over 61,000 participants nationwide. Presently, Mr. Stephens resides in Woodstock, Georgia where, in addition to his association with K2 Enterprises, he provides consulting services to small businesses and CPA firms. In addition to an active professional career, Mr. Stephens enjoys an active personal life as well. He and Michelle – his wife of thirty-one years – have two children. His hobbies include snow skiing, fishing, and running. Additionally, Mr. Stephens maintains professional memberships with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and is a past member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

PRICING

$79.00 - Member

$109.00 - Nonmember

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