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Credit cards have traditionally been known to induce greater expenses. With the power of plastic money people tend to get ahead of themselves indulging in luxuries and expenditure that they can hardly afford. However, on the positive side, credit cards can be used as a strict tab on the expenses by using the credit limit and the expenditure report to your advantage. There are many credit cards launched in recent times that will actually help businessmen to make some savings and enhance their profitability.

Tools to control expenses

Quite a few credit cards have been launched with various tools like graphs, spending patterns and monthly reports etc. which will help businessmen look at their income and expenditure flows in one shot. These tools helps owners of small and medium sized businesses to manage their financial matters better by identifying their income sources and the expenditure channels along with leaks and other unnecessary wastage. Using these tools would certainly help businessmen to increase their cost effectiveness and profitability.

Monthly liquidity

Business cards have various features that suit the requirements of businessmen and can further be customized. A good example is the case, where for high cost expenditure or item, a monthly repayment plan can be worked out and lave the rest of the expenditure to be paid regularly. This way the card holder can plan finances better and repay cost of high expenditure items faster instead of paying interest on all the other expenditure on the card as well. Also many business cards allow the card holder to plan the liquidity cycle so that money inflow is at its peak when the business needs liquidity.

Add-on credit cards

Many card holders get the additional benefit of add on credit cards that can be provided to the employees of the small or medium sized business. The employees will benefit because they could get a card which will help them build a credit history in the long term. The employer will benefit because for every expense of add on card holder, the actual card holder will get bonus points, rewards and other discounts on business expenditure. This is a win-win situation for everyone.

Fraud monitoring

Given the relatively higher credit limit required for businesses, some cards come with protection plans and round the clock monitoring. In case of any alerts, the card will be temporarily frozen to monitor and avoid fraud on the credit card at all times.

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