Are your employees cheating on their expense claims?

Employers across the globe are giving their workers a bonus for all their long hours and exhausting business trips. The catch, however, is that they probably don’t know it. Fraudulent expense claims are contributing to significant business losses and new research shows it’s much more common than you may expect.

Recent research from webexpenses suggests that employee expense fraud is far more common than you think. With 42 per cent of surveyed Australians admitting to fraudulent mileage claims, chances are your business has already been a victim.

Read the full article on INTHEBLACK.

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