In the American version of “The Office”, you might remember how Dunder-Mifflin Regional Manager, Michael Scott, absolutely detested the branch’s human resources representative, Toby Flenderson. With no apparent reason for hating Toby, some viewers would wonder what caused it. Unfortunately, the events up to rivalry were never revealed, but perhaps the answer was right in front of us all along. Maybe Michael didn’t like Toby because Toby oversaw all HR paperwork and obligated him to do it.
It is understandable that a manager would rather focus on getting work done (or in Michael’s case, focus on having fun) than using that time to do deal with necessary HR tasks such as timesheets, payroll and expense reporting. We all know those things can be an annoyance, but we also know they must be done. Although there is no way of avoiding paperwork they don’t have to be stressful and time-consuming.
Acumatica and Expense Reporting
That must have been on Acumatica mind when they made the Acumatica 6.1 release. The new release contains more sophisticated features that are accessible from a smartphone. One of those features that also looks very promising is the Expense Reporting capability from within the Acumatica app.
From your smartphone, you can start an expense report, select what kind of charge the expense was, and take a picture of the receipt and the app takes care of the rest. The Acumatica App fills in all other information based on the receipt. In just a few moments the picture of the receipt is cleaned up, the expense report’s fields are automatically filled in, and the report is ready for submission right after signing the report with your finger!
There are a lot of futuristic technology . Things like big data, Internet of things (IoT), Block Chain (a digital transaction ledger), Machine Learning, Voice recognition/Natural language processing, chat Bots and much more! Acumatica is making work so quick and simple that if they had been using it at Dunder-Mifflin, Michael might have actually liked doing his job and Toby. Come back to our blog during the next few months to learn more.
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