We are starting the new year on a high note! Gorilla Expense has added another feather to its cap and has won the Top Blogger Award by ERP Cloud for 2023 for the second time in a row. Check it out here.
A huge thanks to ERP Cloud Blog for recognizing our efforts.
We are thrilled to receive this accolade and are excited to fulfill our commitment to delivering top-notch solutions that revolutionize how businesses handle expenses. From seamless expense management solutions to providing detailed blogs about the features, Gorilla Expense will continue to work towards providing solutions that will help businesses focus on what matters the most.
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Your employees travel to grow your business but forget to submit their expense reports on time, thereby preventing companies from getting real-time data on all company spending patterns from distinct locations. Before your organization is prevented from real-time updates, switch to Gorilla Expense.
Gorilla Expense introduces Decentralized Reporting, a feature that allows employees across an organization to report their expenses directly without relying heavily on a centralized department or individual. Designed to streamline and expedite expense reporting, this feature revolutionizes the way information is collected, verified, and shared. It also distributes responsibilities and empowers stakeholders of the organization by improving reliance on centralized approval systems.
In this blog, we will understand the aspects of decentralized reporting which include:
Empowerment: In a decentralized system, employees are given the authority to report their expenses such as travel expenses, meal expenses, office supplies, and more. This helps in reducing the bureaucracy and delays associated with centralized approval systems, thereby empowering the employees truly.
Efficiency: With a decentralized approach, expenses can be reported and approved more quickly since they don’t need to go through a central department for processing. This can lead to faster reimbursements for employees and a more efficient financial process.
Responsibility Distribution: It distributes the responsibility for managing expenses across different individuals or teams to prevent bottlenecks and reduce the workload of a single department that is responsible for processing expenses.
Transparency: This feature promotes transparency as employees directly submit their expenses and related information, leading to better accountability and compliance with the organization’s expense policies.
Policy Adherence: While empowering employees to report their expenses, it’s important to have clear expense policies in place. These policies provide guidelines for what expenses are eligible for reimbursement and help maintain consistency across the organization.
Data Accuracy: Using automated tools, such as mobile apps or online forms, can help reduce human errors in expense reporting. These tools can validate data and calculations, improving the accuracy of reported expenses.
Analytics and Insights: Organizations can gain insights into spending patterns, identify potential areas for cost-saving, and make informed decisions based on the aggregated expense data.
Central Oversight: While the process is decentralized, it’s still important to have a level of central oversight for compliance, auditing, and policy enforcement. This oversight helps maintain consistency and prevents misuse.
From eliminating single points of failure to enabling secure and tamper-proof reporting mechanisms, decentralized expense reporting brings multiple benefits to an organization.
Explore a solution like Gorilla Expense, which harmoniously integrates both decentralized reporting and centralized control for streamlined expense management for your organization.
We believe that our clients should work towards growing their businesses and leave the worries of expense reporting and managing to us. On this note, do check out our 30+ features that make your expense management journey hassle-free and stress-free here.
Did you know your expense data is a treasure trove of valuable insights, waiting to be discovered? Well, at Gorilla Expense we give you the power to slice and dice your data in any way you want to get the answers you need when you need them.
Yes, you read that right! With Ad-Hoc Reporting you can create custom reports for exporting and analyzing your data and:
Can create, modify, or view ad-hoc views to supercharge your insights.
Compare performance across departments, projects, and employees to identify areas for improvement.
Quantify the impact of expense management initiatives and measure ROI.
Ad-Hoc reporting helps you generate compliance reports that meet the needs of your auditors and within a few clicks, you can get the insights you need to make better business decisions.
Get an overview of the Ad-Hoc Reporting feature here.
Gorilla Expense understands the importance of data insights and is constantly working towards making features that lessen your burden so that you can focus on what matters the most.
Explore our 30+ features that are seamlessly efficient here.
Are complex expense management tasks affecting your managers’ productivity? Say no to tedious paperwork and give your managers the perfect tool to help them spend more time growing your business.
Introducing Gorilla Expense’s Advanced Authorization feature, a tool that will empower your managers to take control of their team’s expense management, helping them to effortlessly manage permissions, define multi-tier approval hierarchies, and ensure compliance with precision. Additionally, this feature allows the managers to provide specific access rights such as:
Create, Read, Update, and Delete: The manager user will be able to create, read, update, and delete the master data of the sub-menu.
Read Only: The manager user cannot create or update the master data of the sub-menu.
None: The manager user cannot access the sub-menu when the access right is set to ‘None’.
Managers can further manage expense policies and workflows and run reports and analytics. They can also set granular permissions for each manager and give them the right level of access to the data and features they need.
Understand the steps to set Advanced Authorization in detail here.
With Gorilla Expense, give your managers the key to the kingdom.
Gorilla Expense has been working tirelessly to provide you with the best-in-class, and hassle-free features that make your expense management process easy like a breeze.