Question about "County-issued credit cards"

If I am understanding your question properly, you are asking about county-issued credit cards.

What they are referring to are credit cards that are issued to the account of the county with the names of specified individuals. Corporations do this a lot too. For instance, instead of having the employee collect and submit travel-related receipts for reimbursement, the company just orders a credit card in that employee's name and pays the bill directly to the credit company. Saves everyone a lot of bookkeeping yet, with proper auditing still has the same oversight for abuse detection.

Thanks - exactly what I wanted to know.

(Would be impossible here that state/county/ employees/civil servants order such as pointed at in the example. - And besides four-eyes's system, we still believe in good old bookkeeping. :wink: )

walter :
would german government employees/representatives draw a "travel advance" for their various travel expenses in advance of travel or would the government agency be billed directly by the airline , hotel etc for expenses ?

so called "business" credit cards are quite common here . american express has a special arrangement with many businesses (i think with governments too) , where they sent a "consolidated" statement to an employer for all employees holding a credit card through their companies with them .
that SHOULD give companies quite good control over the expenses charged by individuals .
of course , if controls are lax , the card-holder can pretty well charge anything .
hbg