Stories by Jonathan Beeby

Finance leaders can enhance spend compliance by focusing audits on high-risk areas, using AI, automating checks, and applying data analytics for stronger controls.

Business travel rebounds in 2025 with 99% of ANZ travellers willing to fly, though stakeholder misalignment hampers travel programme effectiveness.

Business spending on travel and expenses in Australia and New Zealand rose 14% in 2024, while smart controls kept costs stable despite increased activity.

Corporate travel is evolving into a real-time, policy-smart, and employee-centric function, boosting business agility and cost control across organisations.

Corporate travel evolves with real-time, policy-smart systems creating agile, cost-effective journeys that empower employees and streamline spending.

Business travel surged in early 2024 as companies reinvested in face-to-face connections, with domestic airfare sales soaring by 70% from late 2023.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionising business travel expense management, offering integrated solutions that enhance compliance and reduce administrative workload.

Artificial intelligence is becoming essential for CFOs to drive enterprise growth, enhancing efficiency, decision-making, and competitive edge.

Modern CFOs now collaborate closely with HR and IT teams, driving strategy and organisational growth while facing economic pressures and talent challenges.

AI gives CFOs a strategic edge in volatile markets, but effective use requires more than just tech: learning, innovation, and ethical standards are crucial.

Amid complex challenges, AI and ethical travel policies present key improvements for Australian and New Zealand firms' management of travel and expense processes.

Amidst operating turbulence, CFOs in Australia and New Zealand are embracing agility, digital transformation, and supply chain resilience to effectively navigate and leverage business hurdles for growth opportunities.

By taking steps to better manage indirect spend more effectively through invoice automation, companies can ensure that their operations and workflows are optimised.

The need for automation is not merely a fad. Instead, it will continue to grow, with the world now shifting to a digital business landscape.

As hybrid and remote working models remain in place, they reveal previously unconsidered security gaps in organisations.

Considering that finance is at the heart of every business, it has been the function most impacted by the changed work environment.

Organisations that implement spend management technology sooner rather than later will find themselves in a stronger position to weather an economic storm.

By moving away from manual processes towards automated solutions, businesses can identify and prevent invoice fraud via greater transparency and accountability.