Contents of the Options Form

Use the fields on the Options form in Expense Settings to specify expense report setup information.

Global Expense Options Section

Field	Description
Use Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) In Mobile T&E	Set this option to enable or disable ICR in Mobile Time & Expense (mobile). With ICR enabled, Mobile Time & Expense automatically scans and analyzes the captured image, maps the captured data to the expense report screens, and automatically populates the matched fields.

Company-specific section

Field	Description
Company Name	If you have multiple companies, the name of the active company displays at the top of the form. You specify expense setting options for each company.
Employee Signature Required	Specify whether or not employees must enter their Vantagepoint user name and password as their signature when they submit expense reports.
Signer's Text	This field displays if you set Employee Signature Required to Yes. Enter the text that you want to display in a message that employees receive after they enter their Vantagepoint user name and password (signature), but before they submit their expense reports. Click above the field to open the text editor and format the text.
Apply Advances	Specify whether or not to allow employees to enter advance amounts on their expense reports. An advance is money that your company pays an employee in anticipation that the employee will use the money to pay for a business expense, such as an airline ticket. When an employee adds expense items and an advance amount to an expense report, the advance amount is subtracted from the total expense amount for the expense report to determine the correct reimbursement amount that is due the employee.
Distance Measure	In the first field, enter the monetary amount that you will reimburse employees for each mile or kilometer traveled. In the second field, select the unit of measure for travel: Mile or Kilometer.

Advanced Options Section

Field	Description
Treat Inactive Projects as Dormant	Specify whether or not you want to prevent employees from entering inactive projects on their expense reports. Normally, Vantagepoint allows you to use inactive projects for transactions, but does not allow you to use dormant projects for transactions. When you select Yes, employees are prevented from entering inactive projects on expense reports. This setting does not affect the use of inactive projects for any other types of transactions in Vantagepoint, such as Billing or Accounts Receivable transactions. When you select No, employees are allowed to enter inactive projects on expense reports. Employees receive a warning to let them know that they are entering a project with an inactive status, but they are allowed to continue with the entry.
Allow to Edit Distance Rate	Select whether or not you want to allow employees to edit the reimbursement rate for distance traveled on their expense reports.
Allow Company Paid Expenses	Select whether or not to allow employees to enter company-paid items on their expense reports. A company-paid item is any expense for which your company sends payment directly to a vendor instead of reimbursing the employee who incurred the expense. The expense is paid through AP Payment Processing, not through Employee Expense Payment Processing. For example, an airline may bill your company for a ticket purchased by one of your employees. Your company pays the airline directly for the cost of the ticket and does not reimburse the employee for this expense. However, the employee would include the cost of the airline ticket on an expense report to provide an audit trail for the expense. If you enable company-paid credit cards, you must set Allow Company Paid Expenses to Yes. (You enable the use of company-paid credit cards in Settings > Cash Management > Options.)
Company Paid Credit Posting: Account, Project, Phase, and Task	These fields display if you set Allow Company Paid Expenses to Yes. Enter the general ledger account to credit for company-paid expenses when expense reports are posted. You also enter the project, phase, and task (if you use them) for company-paid expense postings.
Employee Expense Credit Posting: Account, Project, Phase, and Task	Enter the general ledger account to credit for employee expenses when expense reports are posted. You must select a balance sheet account. This account applies for expense reports entered in Expense Reports in My Stuff and transaction entries for employee expenses in the Transaction Center. You also enter a project, phase, and task (if you use them) for the employee expense credit postings. If you have implemented organizations in Vantagepoint, you enter a project only if you maintain separate balance sheets and you do not distribute the employee expense credit by organization. Click in these fields to use the lookup to make a selection. These same employee expense credit posting fields are also displayed on the Posting Accounts settings form in Settings > Accounting > Posting Accounts. When you enter a credit account, project, phase, or task in one location, information is updated in the other location.
Employee Advance Credit Posting: Account, Project, Phase, and Task	Enter the general ledger account to credit for employee advances when expense reports are posted. You must select a balance sheet account. This account applies to expense reports entered in Expense Reports in My Stuff and transaction entries for employee expenses in the Transaction Center. You also enter a project, phase, and task (if you use them) for the employee advance credit postings. If you have implemented organizations in Vantagepoint, you enter a project only if you maintain separate balance sheets and you do not distribute the employee expense credit by organization. Click in these fields to use the lookup to make a selection. These same employee advance credit posting fields are also displayed on the Posting Accounts settings form in Settings > Accounting > Posting Accounts. When you enter a credit account, project, phase, or task in one location, information is updated in the other location.

Display on Expense Report Section

Field	Description
Account	If you want to display the Account and/or Account Name fields on the Expense Report form in Expense Reports, select one of the following from the drop-down list: Number, Name, or Both. This allows employees to enter the general ledger debit account for an expense item, or the debit account may prefill based on the default debit accounts that you specify on the Expense Categories form in Expense Settings. If you do not want to display the Account and/or Account Name fields on the Expense Report form in Expense Reports, select None.
Line Numbers	Select whether or not to have line numbers display for each expense report line item on the Expense Report form in Expense Reports.