Expense Management System

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Expense Management system (09E) is designed to help companies effectively manage reimbursement requests. The system facilitates entering expense reports and provides immediate error notification if information is missing or inaccurate. It also provides control mechanisms to monitor and audit expense reports, and the flexibility to customize the system for evolving expense and travel policies.

With JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Expense Management, you create and customize your expense reimbursement policies according to the type of expenses incurred. For each type of expense, you establish expense categories that you can customize to track pertinent information. For example, you might set up an expense category for airfare, and then further customize it to require the employee to enter a ticket number, ticket status, subledger, and so on. As you set up the expense categories in a policy, you can further define daily allowances or per diem rules, policy limits to require an audit, and rules for when a receipt is required. You can also set up expense policies to differentiate between allowable and unallowable amounts for any expense category. Unallowable amounts are amounts that exceed the daily allowance for an expense category. This portion of an expense is allocated to a separate object and subsidiary account that you set up when you map expense accounts to expense categories.

You set up group profiles and employee profiles to specify the reimbursement method and currency, as well as designate whether management approval is required for expense reports that are submitted. While you can set up this information for a group of employees, the system also allows you to override the information as needed on an individual basis. Employees can be reimbursed from the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Payable system or the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Payroll system, or you can directly reimburse a credit card company.

After expense reports are submitted, they might require management or auditor approval. The system provides a checklist to assist in tracking receipts received and managing expense exceptions.

If you set up the expense report process to require management approval, you can set up a system for alternate and multiple approvals. Use distribution lists and workflow to set up alternate approving managers to manage the approval process without delays if managers change or are not available. You can also set up a hierarchy of managers that are authorized to approve expense reports with larger amounts.

After the approval and audit processes are completed, the system produces accounts payable vouchers or time card records that you use to process the payment.