Do you trust your data? Should you? 4 tips for assessing the information that drives your business

If your travel and expense (T&E) data is fuzzy and your accounts payable (AP) info is unclear, you can’t expect your decisions, plans, or forecasts to be anything but ambiguous. 

In the world of spend management, bad data doesn’t just cause headaches, it burns through budgets, clouds visibility, and invites all sorts of risks. It robs you of clarity when you’re already adrift in the murkiness of economic and regulatory uncertainty. And it softens the sharpness AI could bring to your spending and your business. 

So what does good data look like—and how do you know you can trust it?