Big Brother is watching, so go easy on the company expense account.
That is the message MasterCard's corporate payment system helps its clients send to their employees, according to Peter Gordon, the credit-card giant's vice-president for commercial payment solutions in the Asia-Pacific.
'The way that a lot of companies organise their staff expenditure and procurement systems, it is pretty easy for people to take advantage of them,' he said.
'Let's say your brother has an appliance store. You can simply ask him to give you a receipt that says you've bought something for work and then claim the expense against the company. This is an area we hope to fill in.'
Mr Gordon said the MasterCard system, called Smart Data Online, could help executives identify whether employees were making company-expensed purchases at preferred vendors and whether they were spending sensibly by making them report their expense through the internet.
'Since it is an online-based system, they can monitor spending of staff working thousands of kilometres away in New York City. Once they find something suspicious, they can immediately put a flag on a staff member's credit card.'