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* Please select the best way to describe your company’s Travel & Entertainment Expense Management policy and platform for processing business expense reimbursement?

One global T&E policy and one global T&E Expense Management platform

One global T&E policy and multiple T&E Expense Management platforms

Several T&E policies and multiple T&E Expense Management platforms

No standardized T&E policies and no standardized T&E Expense Management platforms

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* ...and what data do you feed into these systems? (check all that apply)

TMC

Corporate Card

Other (please specify)

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* What are / were your biggest challenges to implementing a global T&E Expense Management platform? (check all that apply)

Different lines of business with different needs

Local statutory requirements

Senior management support

Non-standard financial reimbursement and accounting processes

Other (please specify)

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* What do you view as the main value of an integrated T&E policy and T&E Expense Management Platform?

Compliance to policies and preferred suppliers

Fraud detection

Increased leverage with suppliers due to better insight and data into T&E spend

Efficiencies gained from streamlining processes (back office/shared service center/no more manual expense reports etc.)

Other (please specify)

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* In the aftermath of the attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam, use of full body scan technology is likely to increase in airports around the world, specifically for U.S.-bound flights. Do you think this will hurt in-bound corporate travel to the United States?

No... Business travelers must still do business

Yes... It is an invasion of privacy, and corporations will allow business travelers to seek more travel alternatives

Yes... But as travelers get used to new security measures it will pick up again

I don’t know

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* The U.S. has targeted 14 nations from which incoming travelers (with the exception of U.S. citizens) are required to undergo additional security screening when entering the country. Is this the right strategy?

No... It is tantamount to racial profiling

No... It will significantly reduce in-bound travel to the U.S., including business travel

No... It will cause security to focus on those regions and miss other threats

Yes... It is an unfortunate reality but the U.S. must protect its borders

Yes... The U.S. has every right to identify and screen individuals from countries with which it has political tensions

I don’t know

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* On which activities do you think the U.S. and other cooperating countries should concentrate attention and resources in addressing the problem of terrorist activity as it relates to travel? (check all that apply)

Gathering better intelligence for watchlists

Ensuring the communication of watchlists to international security organizations

Ensuring increased and standardized screening procedures in airports around the globe

Organizing domestic and international security organizations to concentrate on the “next threat” rather than the “recent attempt”

Other (please specify)

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