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The Expenses tab provides a list of business and personal expenses the employee paid is responsible for.

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The "Employee Expense Report (create)" form. The Expenses tab

To add an expense, click the Add or Pick button (refer to Working with the pick operation). To open the list of expenses, click the Show All hyperlink. To create a new item, click Image Removed Image Added (Create); for more details, refer to the Items topic. You can use the Up and Down ( Image Removed  Image Added ) arrows to rearrange the items in the list.

The Image Added icon in the first column indicates that for this item payroll deductions were defined.  For information on setting up payroll deductions, see the The Payroll Deductions dialog box section below in this topic.

In the Quantity column, you can specify the quantity if applicable. The UOM column is automatically populated with the default unit of measurement for the selected expense.

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In the Business Activity column, select the business activity which is associated with this item.

Use the Project field to link the item to a specific project. The field is available if the Project Costing is selected on the Administration > Settings > Project Costing form. The Project column is available if the Project Costing functionality is turned on on the Administration > Settings > Project Costing form. You can link the expenses with projects from the list of available projects.

If the Enable Project Tasks option is selected on the Administration > Settings > Project Costing form, you can link each expense with specific project task. 

You can use the Department and Expense Item columns to specify parameters for further analysis of these expenses.

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Use the In Doc # and In Doc Date fields to specify the number and date of the supporting document (shop receipt, supplier invoice, or so forth). Notice that you can attach a scan of the supporting document to the expense receipt by using the appropriate button ( Image Removed  Image Added ) on the toolbar.

In the GL Accounts column, you can view the default accounts to be updated by this transaction. If needed, you can replace them with other accounts.

The tab toolbar buttons

The Payroll Deductions button is available only if the Enable Payroll Deductions option is selected on the Administration > Settings > HR and Payroll form. Click the Payroll Deductions button on the toolbar if you need to deduct the expense amount from the earnings of specific employees – this invokes the corresponding dialog box (for more information, refer to the section below). 

For other button descriptions, refer to Document Toolbar.

The Payroll Deductions dialog box

To cancel the deductions, click Cancel in the dialog box.

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The Payroll Deductions dialog box

Click Add to add a new line to the list of employee deductions. Create a list of employees to distribute the deduction amount.

In the Employee column, select the employee for deduction.

In the Deduction Type column, select or create a type of deduction.

In the Deduction Amount column specify the particular amount.

Use the GL Accounts column to select the account for recording deductions.

In the Transaction Content column, type a description of the GL entry.

Make sure that the sum in the Deduction Amount column is equal to the expense amount shown on the top of the dialog box.

Click OK to save the list of deductions. Click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving the data.