08-17-2016, 12:49 PM
Leilani,
When i worked in a Fortune 10 company that had extremely strict corporate credit card policies, even they understood that sometimes its acceptable/advantageous/unavoidable to have personal (but reimbursed) charges on a corporate card. For example, when on a business trip staying over on a Saturday night sometimes resulted in lower airfares. I'd bill my entire hotel stay, rental car etc. on corporate card and then reimburse the prorated personal charges for the extra Saturday night vacation day. Or when entertaining clients over dinner, I'd charge the entire bill to corporate card then reimburse my spouse's meal (rather than make a scene asking for separate checks in front of a stakeholder). And then there are the times when employee's personal expenses were accidentally charged to corporate card (like when rental car companies pulled up the wrong card from the driver's profile, or when an employee honestly mistakenly swiped the wrong card).
I'm not saying that Billy's charges were legitimate or paid back in a timely fashion, but in the real world there are times when personal charges and business charges get intermingled on a corporate card and so most corporate financial practices have processes for the reimbursement of any personal expenses incurred.
When i worked in a Fortune 10 company that had extremely strict corporate credit card policies, even they understood that sometimes its acceptable/advantageous/unavoidable to have personal (but reimbursed) charges on a corporate card. For example, when on a business trip staying over on a Saturday night sometimes resulted in lower airfares. I'd bill my entire hotel stay, rental car etc. on corporate card and then reimburse the prorated personal charges for the extra Saturday night vacation day. Or when entertaining clients over dinner, I'd charge the entire bill to corporate card then reimburse my spouse's meal (rather than make a scene asking for separate checks in front of a stakeholder). And then there are the times when employee's personal expenses were accidentally charged to corporate card (like when rental car companies pulled up the wrong card from the driver's profile, or when an employee honestly mistakenly swiped the wrong card).
I'm not saying that Billy's charges were legitimate or paid back in a timely fashion, but in the real world there are times when personal charges and business charges get intermingled on a corporate card and so most corporate financial practices have processes for the reimbursement of any personal expenses incurred.