The care and feeding of your salespeople

by cfohelp

Expense reports are a pain in the neck, but most of us still use them – and many reimburse using paper checks. Generally salespeople hate this since they’re always traveling – I’ve had to get their bank info and deposit the checks for them so they could pay their credit card bill!

Adding a non-taxable reimbursement field to the payroll system to deposit them in the ordinary course of business with wages solves this problem (cr cash, dr a/p). You can even get a little fancier by adding more fields matching your expense accounts ie. Meals&Ent, Hotels, Mileage, etc. (cr cash, dr expense|dept), and you’ll realize more efficiency/accuracy by automatically charging the relevant department/profit center. Most payroll systems can handle uploads and/or push expense reports off to the HR department where the work load is more stable. It’s no excuse to tell your salespeople “I’m too busy, it’s year-end, quarter-end, budgets, whatever” – their work is just as important, maybe more 😉