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3–14 Automate Expense Reporting
The solution just noted is for an automated employee expense reporting sys-
tem that is entirely custom programmed. However, many organizations do not
process a sufficient number of employee expense reports to justify the cost of all
the programming time that is required to create the system. For these organizations,
a good alternative is to purchase one of the automated expense reporting software
packages that are now available. These packages are entirely self-contained and do
an effective job of processing employee expense reports, but they do not provide
direct linkages to the rest of a company’s accounting system. For this, a custom-
designed interface module is still required. A Web-based expense reporting pack-

Exhibit 3.3 The Automated Expense Reporting Process