You work in the finance department of a medium sized financial institution and have recently been handed some new responsibilities, including expense processsing.
It is end of month and employees across the organisation have submitted their monthly expense claims for you to process. You can see there are a number of claims from a senior leader for an item not considered to be something the organisation would cover the cost of. You raise this verbally with your manager who says the same person has claimed for it a number of times before and it has always been paid.
Your manager insists you process the expense and reimburse the senior leader, but this doesn’t sit well with you. Your organisation does have a speak out program, but having never used it before, you’re fearful of what you might be required to do and the repercussions.
What do you do?
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