Systems and methods for telecommunication expense management

A system for electronically processing telecommunications invoices comprising:

• a computer connected to a network;
• a storage accessible by said computer;
• said computer extracting elements from the telecommunications invoices and storing the extracted elements on said storage, wherein each telecommunications invoice is formatted in a vendor specific format and nomenclature;
• a mapping database saved on said storage, said mapping interface including equivalent nomenclature to the vendor specific nomenclature;
• said computer using the mapping database to transform the extracted elements described in the vendor specific nomenclature to equivalent nomenclature used by said computer;
• said computer receiving cost center information from an human resource (-HR) computer and correlating the cost center information with the extracted elements described in the equivalent nomenclature;
• said computer determining whether a cost center associated with an element among the extracted elements is active;
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• said computer generating a report that identifies at least one element billing exception.