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Small Business 101: Mileage Allowances

Do you frequently travel to client locations? If so, are you currently taking advantage of mileage allowances? Mileage allowances are a qualifying business expense, providing you with tax-free reimbursements and lowering your business’s taxable income.

This tax advantage benefits all business owners, including self-employed individuals. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of mileage allowances, including the allowable limits set by the UK Government and how you can maximize compliance with reporting requirements.

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Understanding e-invoicing reform in Germany

Tiffanie Laurent

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Are you aware of the new invoicing requirements under The Growth Opportunities Act? The German Bundesrat endorsed new electronic invoicing requirements on March 22, 2024, looking to streamline processes for companies operating in Germany.

Under European Directive #EN16931, businesses must be prepared to receive e-invoices beginning in January 2025; however, issuance of e-invoices isn’t mandated until January 2027 for companies with over €800,000 in annual turnover. Companies under this threshold can wait until January 2028 to begin utilizing e-invoicing.

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What are expense claims?

Tiffanie Laurent

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Do you frequently reimburse employees for business expenses paid on personal cards? It’s not uncommon for employees to grab lunch with a client, travel to meetings, and purchase company supplies using personal funds.

Reimbursing these expense claims isn’t always as clear-cut and streamlined as business owners would like. In fact, the threat of fraudulent expense claims poses a serious concern, as a recent study uncovered that nearly 1 in 4 employees have committed expense fraud.

Bolstering your expense claim function relies on understanding the basics, like how expense reports work, the associated challenges, and how to implement an efficient claim process. This is exactly what we’re going to cover in this article. Let’s dive in!

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Financial risk management: Optimize your business management

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Financial risk management requires rigor and anticipation. As CFOs know, every grain of sand in the machinery has a cost, with varying degrees of impact on operations. Risk management is therefore a strategic challenge, particularly in a tense economic and geopolitical climate.

How can you limit the impact of internal or external factors and preserve your company’s financial equilibrium? Sound risk management involves identifying the main threats and defining an effective prevention policy.

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How to manage corporate cards – the ultimate checklist

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Corporate cards are a means of payment for employees’ (strictly) professional expenses. Linked to the company’s bank account, there are several types and names: prepaid card, business payment card, or pro card.

Unlike traditional expense reimbursement systems, corporate cards offer a number of advantages to help optimize business expense management. For example, employees no longer need to advance personal funds, which could have posed financial problems for them in the past. The cards also streamline the accounting reporting process.

However, companies that use these cards will need to pay attention to security and control issues.

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Travel request and expense reports: which reimbursement process to set up?

Tiffanie Laurent

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From local customer meetings to international business trips, all companies need to manage their employees’ business trips. When employees go on a business trip, they are sometimes required to make a travel request, or agree a travel request with their employer. But what is the point of this mission order? How can you optimize the resulting reimbursement process? Find out everything you need to know about mission orders.

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Expense report management: 5 good reasons for choosing a smartphone app

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In companies, expense reports are still generally managed in Excel. But spreadsheets are not very intuitive tools and are not really intended for collaborative work. This often leads to delays, errors, and omissions. The solution? Move to paperless processes with powerful expense management software! We focus on five major advantages of the N2F solution for companies today.

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CFOs: how much do your employees’ expenses actually cost you?

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The real cost of managing expenses is often underestimated. Paper-based expense reports are still widely used by many companies. Processing errors can accumulate, not to mention the risk of losing receipts…

Poor expense management can cost companies thousands of euros per year! However, there are now simple and efficient solutions to optimize expense report management. The N2F expense report management application helps companies to significantly reduce the cost of processing employee expense reports. Find out how it works…

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Covid-19: How to control your expenses in times of crisis

Tiffanie Laurent

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Controlling expenses is a crucial issue for companies, now more than ever. The Covid-19 crisis has put a strain on the financial stability of many businesses. The need to reorganize work and the various constraints linked to managing the crisis have generated unexpected additional expenses. The question is how to better control business expenses and how to save time on repetitive tasks. Here are four steps to take to effectively reduce costs and deal with temporary or permanent economic difficulties.

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Service companies: re-invoicing your employees’ professional expenses

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To re-invoice professional expenses, it is essential to keep detailed accounting records to be able to track the professional expenses incurred, their amount, their nature, and the applicable VAT rate.

To help professionals in this task, the N2F expense report management application can be used to generate expense reports in order to avoid any errors or delays in managing the re-invoicing of professional expenses.

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Small Business 101: Mileage Allowances

Understanding e-invoicing reform in Germany

What are expense claims?

Financial risk management: Optimize your business management

How to manage corporate cards – the ultimate checklist

Travel request and expense reports: which reimbursement process to set up?

Expense report management: 5 good reasons for choosing a smartphone app

CFOs: how much do your employees’ expenses actually cost you?

Covid-19: How to control your expenses in times of crisis

Service companies: re-invoicing your employees’ professional expenses