Expense Settings
Use Expense Settings to set up and maintain expense report entry and processing settings. You set up expense groups, expense categories, signature requirements, general ledger accounts for posting, approvals, reimbursement options, check templates for expense payments, and more.
If you have multiple companies, you must enter expense settings for each company. The active company displays at the top of each form. Use beside the active company name in the title bar to switch to a different company and enter settings for another company.
Settings in the following locations also affect expense reports:
- If you enabled the tax auditing feature in Edit. The Tax Override grid is on the Expense Categories dialog box.) , the taxes that you specify are applied by default for expense reports. To override default taxes for expense reports, you specify the tax codes to apply for an expense category in the Tax Override grid of the Expense Categories settings form in . (To access the Tax Override grid for an expense category, on the Expense Categories settings form, hover over its row in one of the grids, click and select
- On the Time & Expense tab in the Employees hub, you assign access rights (Staff, Group, Company, or Admin) to the Expense Report application for each employee.
- On the Time & Expense tab in the Projects hub, you specify whether or not expense reports items charged to a project are billed to the client (bill by default). You specify whether or not to display a warning or error message in the Expense application when employees charge certain expenses to a project. You also determine whether or not to turn on expense line item approvals for a project, which overrides the system setting for expense line item approvals.
- Related Topics:
- Checklist: Setting Up the Expense Report Application
Review this checklist for an overview of the steps that you must complete before employees can process expense reports in My Stuff. - Expense Summary Settings
A summary of the settings that are made on each of the expense setting forms are displayed in the Summary form. - Expense Options Settings
Use the available settings to configure how expense reports is displayed and functions for employees. - Expense Groups Settings
Set up expense groups to assign a logical grouping for employees based on their role or position. The expense groups can then be used to manage expense-related settings. - Expense Categories Settings
Assign expense categories that employees can use in expense reports using the Expense Categories settings. - Expense Payments Settings
Configure the payment processing settings for expenses in Payment settings. - Expense Approvals Settings
Approvals related settings for expenses are configured in the Expense Approvals form. - Expense Alerts Settings
Use alerts settings to specify how expense-related alerts are delivered in Vantagepoint.
Parent Topic: Settings