"Like Sandy, Bob is focused on the bottom line and on expense controls".
Dialing internationally on cellphones is typically so expensive that the service is used mostly by businesspeople on expense accounts.
Spend doesn't appear to be a part of some grand Microsoft plan to take on expense tracking industry giants, like Expensify or SAP-owned Concur, for example.
They live much as others of their education (boarding school in England, business and law school in Boston) do: summer shares in the Hamptons, expensive meals on expense accounts.
Each was assessed on expense and speed of construction, and then one lucky block of flats, codenamed "K7", was chosen as the winner.
More done on expense side?
The company has also put strict limits on expense accounts.
"You're on expense account, you don't come here, you go to Le Cirque.
A large but unspecified portion of The F.T.'s individual subscriptions are bought on expense accounts.
1) Business travelers on expense accounts pay the same airfares as penny-pinching leisure travelers.
And they focused on expense management, so they could pass on the savings to their customers".
