How many of you in the workforce have to pay for your expenses and then submit an expense report or receipts for reimbursement versus being given a company credit card to use for business?

Company Amex but sometimes it's not accepted so I have to carry a Visa as a spare.

i have company card but its so tedious to close out all the expenses, i just pay and get reimbursed, let someone else do the work

Reimburse, then I double down and use it as tax write offs.

My card. Expense report. Reimburse.

2 company cards, a MasterCard and an AMEX. I spend WAY too much to even think about the reimbursement method. All of the purchases that are made for our SA office go on my cards.

I have a company Amex, but we're limited to what we can use it for. The project I'm working on, I can only use it for pre approved things by my supervisor. I am recieving a flat per deim rate, so I'm limited to what I can get reimbursed for (parking, gas, flights, and hotels are about the extent of it.) THose, I have to pay out of pocket then get reimbursed.

I use my card and get reimbursed. I'd rather get the rewards from the CC than have my company receive them. I spend about $75k/yr for the company and that can have its nice little perks.

I worked for the Texas AG for a while. I tried the reimbursement thing for a while. Ultimately went with the Amex card. Both ways were a beating though. We had to travel a lot. Reimbursement usually took 6 weeks. In that time I'd typically put in 3 or 4 other out of town trips. All of them paid out of my pocket. It was like slowly digging a deep well. The longer you were there and the more you traveled the deeper the hole got.

I finally had enough of it and went back to work for a real LE agency.

Have company card that gets paid directly after filing my expenses. But the company card is in my name and on my credit record.

Old company gave me a card. New company I think I'll have to pay out of pocket and get reimbursed

My company has enough red tape that I had to sign up for a corporate AMEX card only to find out that I have to pay the bill for the card and still submit an expense report to get paid back. It's the dumbest system I could possibly imagine.

Same here. Glad they finally dropped the Amex...

Company Card.

Not me! I learned a valuable lesson years ago about company reimbursement. Never again.

ALWAYS make them pay your way. Trust me.

this, company pays after i submit an electronic expense statement. i also have a gas card that i do not have to report, the fleet company handles that

Just got the company card about 2 months ago. Too much red tape. I would rather go back to the reimbursement.

That is the way I see it. As an employer, I do not want my employees stressed out about if they have enough money to "cover" it until the company pays them back. Some of our trips costs thousands of dollars. I have always provided company cards. I am not understanding the red tape you people have to go through with a company card. My employees just rack up expenses and hand over the receipts to the bookeeper and they are finished.

i was thinking about going to the reimburse thing but I do not think I will now.

I have 3 company cards. I just wish my dad didn't have any. Gas for a 66FT Hatteras was a little high last month.

J/k lol.

I did for 5 years and hated it. I don't like putting my money up first at all. I complained until I finally got a company credit card. Life is grand now.

The problem with me, I would run up $7,000-$8,000 a month (still do) and we were reimbursed at the end of the month. Why should I be on the hook for 30 days. Didn't care for it at all.

Company Visa now. Using your own card blows. Real bad if you have significant monthly expenses.

Got a company Visa with a $10,000 every 2 weeks.

While you are right about being a stupid system, you are not alone. My company also thinks this is the way to handle it.

If true, that's illegal, and you probably shouldn't advertise it on the internet.

Anyway, I have the company card that is in my name (Basically it means there's no limit.). I still submit the expense report, and they reimburse me, and I pay the bill when it comes. I can get points with the company card. The cool thing is there's two months to pay the bill without any interest. If I leave, they get the card back with a confirmation of zero balance from CC company.

i never will spend my own money to go to work. defeats the purpose of working. i am there to make myself and the company money, not finance my bosses jobs.

Does anyone know if company issued CC report on your credit?

From what I understand, they won't report on your credit, unless you signed the application for the card. I didn't sign anything on either of my co. cards, and from all the research I have done, there should be nothing on my credit report, either good or bad, from these cards.

Mine doesn't. Even though it is linked
To my social.

Never thought about it. For the past 15 years we had to pay our own way and submit a expense report. For the past two years we are all on a Corp Credit Card.

I just ran my credit report and nothing on there from the company card, guess it does not show. I know many people that would rather spend their own money, but know that I've had to do it both ways, I'd rather use the Company Card.

Personal, reimburse.... Many of my expenses come from bars, thus many receipts are lost. giant pain in the butt.