Emburse

Growing a business means constantly leveling up how you manage spend. That's where our webinars comes in.

Emburse hosts free educational webinars that can help small and growing businesses sharpen their travel, expense, and finance strategies.

One upcoming session worth your time is From Resistance to Buy In: Why Travel Policies Fail and How to Fix Them. This webinar will dig into why policies break down and how smarter guidelines, better communication, and the right tools can increase compliance while keeping employees happy.

You can also find lots of past webinars available on-demand, including:

→ Closing the Books Faster: What Leading Teams Are Doing Differently

→ 5 Smart Ways to Strengthen Compliance (Without Making Everyone Hate Finance)

→ Expense Fraud Red Flags and Prevention Tactics

Access all of these learning opportunities at embur.se/webinars.

Booking, approvals, and expense tracking in one place, built to be simple to use.

See what easier looks like at embur.se/compare.

"Just pay it" feels efficient, until it isn't. Rushing through approvals means invoices get processed by whoever's available, not whoever should sign off, and skipped validation steps are exactly how duplicate payments slip through.

There's also a cash cost most businesses don't think about: some vendors offer discounts for early payment, often around 2% for paying within 10 days. If you're always paying the moment an invoice lands regardless of terms, you might be missing a discount that's already on the table, or paying early on invoices that didn't need it, when that cash could've stayed liquid a little longer.

A simple fix: check the actual payment terms on each invoice before it goes out. Pay early when there's a discount worth capturing, and take the full term when there isn't. It's a small habit that keeps more cash in your business without hurting a single vendor relationship.

Worth asking this week: Are you paying fast because it's smart, or just because it's routine?

If you answered “routine,” you may want to check out this webinar: embur.se/just-pay-it-webinar.

Spreadsheets might genuinely be the right call for your business.

Or you might be leaving hours and money on the table every month without realizing it.

Run the numbers yourself at embur.se/small-business.

Forward-thinking financial leaders are on the front lines of growth and embrace their roles as innovators to forge the best path forward.

Many forward-thinking companies have made the switch from cost budgeting to more modular variable-cost budgeting. This modular strategy, completed in multiple phases, allows for more flexibility and faster modeling.

Having a single product that provides a real-time view of expenses, invoices, payments, and cards gives CFOs the data and insights they need to budget effectively and lead their companies proactively.

Explore how Emburse’s real-time analytics can empower smart financial decisions at embur.se/analytics.

Emburse give finance teams the tools to lead, not just manage.

See how at emburse.com.

New York, Seattle, London, and Bengaluru are leading the business travel comeback.

Note: This report is based on corporate booking data from Emburse Travel Analytics, covering a 12-month average ending April 2025.

Most small businesses start with a spreadsheet and a shoebox of receipts. It works for a while. Then a receipt goes missing before an audit, or an expense gets miscategorized and inflates a tax bill, and suddenly your CPA is billing extra hours just to clean things up before filing.

A tax-ready report organizes spend the way the IRS and your accountant actually need it: by employee, vendor, category, and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) versus operating expense.

Deductible expenses get separated automatically, with documentation attached to each one instead of scattered across email and paper.

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→ Why the COGS Split Matters

COGS covers direct production costs, inventory, materials, labor, and it drives your gross margin. Operating expenses cover the rest: rent, software, travel. Mixing the two makes taxes messier and hides whether you're actually profitable.

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→ Where Spreadsheets Break Down

Spreadsheets tend to hold up fine at low volume. As transactions grow, they start producing categorization errors, missing documentation, and inconsistent general ledger entries. None of that looks like a problem in the moment. It becomes one at audit time or at filing, when the IRS expects real substantiation for things like travel, meals, and mileage, and a missing paper trail means a lost deduction.

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→ How This Reduces Risk

Automated tax-ready reporting fixes this at the source: receipts get matched to transactions as they happen, categorization happens automatically, and everything syncs to QuickBooks or Xero. Instead of reconstructing a year of spend in April, the business walks into tax season already organized.

For a growing business, that's the real value: fewer surprises, fewer hours spent on cleanup, and a clearer picture of what you're actually making.

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→ Get Tax-Ready Before You Need To Be

Emburse Spend automates receipt capture, categorization, and accounting sync, so your business stays audit-ready year-round instead of scrambling every April. Try it free for 30 days at embur.se/small-business.

Not all AI is created equal.

Emburse is building agentic experiences that coordinate your entire T&E workflow, so you can spend less time on busy work and more time on what matters.

Meet the reimagined T&E experience, powered by Emburse AI, at embur.se/Reimagined-Exp.

By switching to Emburse, BELFOR unlocked faster reimbursements, leaner operations, and 3X the cost-efficiency, all through workflows built specifically for how they work.

See how making the switch could transform your finance team at embur.se/compare.