Business under threat from expenses fiddling

  • It’s not just MPs who treat expenses as a second salary – other public and private sector staff do it too.
  • Fiddling your expenses could be career limiting and damaging to your employer’s reputation.
  • The business community is growing intolerant of expenses fiddling.
  • Experience shows that the key to a successful expenses system is senior management buy-in.

Fleet Street hacks have a reputation for doing it, City bankers and some notorious company bosses (think Conrad Black and Maxwell), too. Treating expenses as a second salary isn’t exclusively the domain of MPs.

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