Chapter 12. Travel Expense Discovery

The goal of this chapter is to continue our exploration of Qlik Sense with real data, and how it meets the needs of business discovery in your organization. The Qlik Sense application chosen for this chapter is a topic near and dear to most finance departments, Travel Expense Management. Like all the applications covered in this book, feel free to explore this application live at http://sense-demo.qlik.com. With that said, let's turn our attention to the following challenge of travel expense management and how Qlik Sense addresses this common business challenge.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Common travel expense analysis challenges
• The unique way Qlik Sense addresses these challenges
• How the application was built

The business problem

Expenses are a major line item of every global company. Traveling cost is a part of every sales and service cycle. Unfortunately, most expense tools capture the transaction but do little to help gain insights about how the expenses were spent, when, and most importantly how, to reduce these expenses when possible. Some key questions include:

• How are expenses tracked versus the budget?
• What is the actual amount spent to date?
• What is our largest expense type?
• How can we reduce expenses?