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You are happiest when you know that the three "C's" are under control: Cash, Costs, and Compliance. Chrome River can make a contribution in each of these areas.

Let's start with cash. You need to get expense charges to the clients' bills as quickly and accurately as possible. Chrome River Expense is designed to accomplish that task in the professional services firm environment. With a multitude of expense categories and long matter / project lists, Word or Excel based expense reports and drop down menu interfaces are very difficult to navigate. Our simple, configurable Expense Bar and unique Matter Selector make it easy for lawyers, accountants, consultants and their assistants to accurately and easily enter their transactions. In addition, Chrome River is integrated with over 10,000 financial institutions, so expenses charged to a credit card can be added to a report with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Our application is synchronized with your firm's financial system to pass the correct cost codes, matter/project, and general ledger information. The Chrome River Rules Engine allows you to control with complete precision the approval routing for each type of transaction. Your firm can define separate routing rules for billable and non-billable expenses and separate rules for different offices and practice groups. Law firms are not hierarchical; they don't set up rules based on who reports to whom. Chrome River is designed for your environment.

Reimbursing your professionals and staff promptly is a key metric for efficiency. The Chrome River Business Process Engine ensures that expense transactions are moving through their approval processes in a timely manner. You can use email notifications and alerts to monitor "stalled" transactions. Naturally, there is no need for any finance department data entry - all transactions flow electronically to your finance system.

Chrome River Expense will save your firm money; you should see a positive ROI from Day One. With our monthly subscription pricing model, there are no costs for hardware, software licenses, or costly administrative overhead. The low fixed monthly charge will be more than made up in real cost savings: no need to key-in expense reports; imaging of receipts eliminates paper handling; credit card downloads ensure accuracy and timeliness; exception-based auditing rules for compliance monitoring; reporting to respond to client documentation requests... and the list of cost savings goes on. It's a rare opportunity for the finance group to deliver a cost-saving measure that will be popular with the lawyers, accountants, consultants, as well as staff.

The mantra of the corporate world is compliance. While law firms may not face the burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, they do face the scrutiny of their clients. Chrome River Expense allows you to set up compliance policies at the client or matter/project level and can ask users for additional information based on those requirements. If you are audited, our data warehouse allows you to efficiently provide back-up documentation for your bills. Internal compliance is equally rigorous. Your professionals and staff will know that their transactions are being scrutinized by a powerful rules-based system.

Chrome River Expense is built for professional service firms. Perhaps the CFO, more than anyone, appreciates the endless nuanced differences between the professional services firm and the corporate environment. Chrome River Expense meets the goals of cash, cost and compliance because it is built for your business.