Expense Reports

When you need to purchase things with your company's money, sometimes they want you to write them out a response report. I need some help in understanding why, though.

At the end of the billing cycle, said company receives a monthly statement - showing where and how much money you spent with their cash. Now, this creates a second record of how you spent the money, assuming you fill in those reports.

Now, my company has these first two, and also a third -- I use the Neat Receipts filing system. In this system, I scan in my receipts, organize them into folders, then export said folders out to files (after the job) and email them in to the accounts something-or-other department. Therefore ...

My company receives:

1. A paper form filled out by me, detailing when and where and how much I spent.
2. A monthly paper mailed by the credit card company (including the bill to pay, so this is not optional) detailing when and where and how much I spent.
3. An exported Neat Receipts folder, detailing when and where and how much I spent, and pictures of the receipts!

... I feel this is overkill.