Conference 7.286::digital

341.0. "Help save Digital some $$$$$" by TSG::QIDWAI (TSG: Software 'R Us) Tue Jul 07 1987 17:25

    Maybe someone from accounts can help on this one!
    
    For the shuttle service between Logan and La Guardia Eastern Airlines
    now has a 'value pack' where you can buy 10 coupons for the price of 8.
    (Panam also has it now, I believe). The savings amount to about $140
    for the two free tickets with the pack costing $552.
    
    For someone travelling frequently on this route it will make sense
    to buy the pack. It would also make sense for a company like
    Digital to do this, maybe at the cost center level; the cost
    center buys the pack and then as different employees travel they
    make use of the common coupon book. OR the first one to travel buys
    the pack and lets subsequent travellers use the coupons.
    
    Obviously, the current expense report forms and petty cash procedures
    do not lend themselves for a simple way to do all this.
    
    Has someone already found a simple way to handle business expense
    reports in this case?  How to charge for the book and how to show
    when the other coupons are used etc. etc.?
    
    Thanks for helping save the company some $$$$$$$.
    
    Imran

    Air Atlanta (RIP) had a 'pass' deal for about $1200 for 6 months
    of unlimited travel.
    
    Some of our people who regularly flew between their cities (Atlanta,
    Tampa, Orlando) had their cost centers buy the pass, since with
    about 4 round trips, the pass paid for itself.  Expenses were filled
    in with no charge for airfare.
    
    Since the expenses roll up to a cost center anyway, the idea of
    the cost center buying the tickets and distributing them as needed
    might work.
    
    	-Barry-