USING ONLINE PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS TO FACILITATE EXPENSE MANAGEMENT

摘要

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates expense management. The system includes a reporting apparatus that obtains an image of a receipt for an expense of a user. Next, the reporting apparatus enables, for the user, entering of expense data for the expense using information from an online professional network associated with the user. Finally, the reporting apparatus uses the image and the expense data to generate an expense report containing a set of images of receipts for expenses of the user and a set of expense data for the expenses.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for generating an expense report, comprising:
obtaining, at a computer system, at least an image of a receipt for an expense of a user; obtaining, at the computer system, information comprising the user's connections from an online professional network associated with the user; identifying participants associated with the expense using the obtained information; enabling, for the user, entry of expense data including the participants associated with the expense, via a graphical user interface (GUI) in the computer system, using the obtained information; organizing, using the computer system, the obtained image and expense data based on one or more attributes of the expense data to form an expense report; and displaying the expense report via the GUI, wherein the expense report comprises the organized image and expense data.