expense reports

Expense reports: They are the bane of the busy business traveler. Between saving all those receipts, scanning them, documenting, and filling out the paperwork, recouping your money can be a mammoth time suck. It doesn't have to be.

Too many of us rely on ballpark estimates to track our finances, but when it comes to money, there's no need to wing it: Several new online tools debuted at the Finovate Conference this week that can help take the guesswork out of figuring out how much you have, owe or are owed.

Silicon Valley VC Redpoint Ventures, which is leading the Series A investment round, is convinced that Expensify co-founder David Barrett's strategy of getting small-biz employees hooked on its expense-report smartphone apps is the key to a huge market.

Ousted Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd may be disgraced, but his bank account isn't. He's leaving the company with a severance package worth approximately $28 million in cash and stock.