I suspect the employee in question plans to pay with a corporate card and go through the standard expense reporting, which would probably be a lot easier than figuring out how to get Accounts Payable to cut a check or wire transfer or whatever. Purely speculation, though. <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 20, 2013 6:37 PM, "Ethan Blanton" <<a href="mailto:elb@pidgin.im">elb@pidgin.im</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D. spake unto us the following wisdom: > I don't see why Google would use a credit card to make this donation. > Why not an electronic funds transfer to the IMF checking account (no > fees) or a physical check in the mail ($0.46 plus a fraction of a cent > for a check)? Google did not specify; it was made clear that corporate credit card was the preferred method, however. It is possible that the funds are originating from Google UK, and perhaps that has something to do with it. Our own (IMF) experiences with international wires have been ... not good. Ethan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUSWIRf8fixZ3H8crAQj6lAf/b28Iqt2ug6XFivGyRwbfURd0Z6Shy7YY +DPXs3kv+o4PQqPYkb4uYgPJkXSH4tIJ8z9ZQEMHw3kgva2NwcxcQ7tSRtfb2JMn /pYrsXiYw9mz/IDeQLiYdPJwxQPapKQo3UoT6zX7s8vprx5VepsTw1xQ2geCrwFw 2j9/khsawJrUz6JBrZALHlppjpOW3uI56+B46HqbMdVrtcUfdwIou9fRRzx/Dpfw FzEky2KTAWUKik9Ko5nOVgyWWNCRVQxWgKBjeq1quXBTzLpWvm+nFrSGTnMV/h8S GEaBHV6dgLkLxspRhF+/Krw412Lc7T/uPsSXmrrwCycCb1+ibTpV7A== =x8rO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Board mailing list <a href="mailto:Board@imfreedom.org">Board@imfreedom.org</a> <a href="http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/board" target="_blank">http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/board</a> </blockquote></div>