How expenses actually flow

The flow: an employee enters a report, submits it, a manager approves it, audit reviews it, it exports to Payables as an invoice, it is paid, and it is accounted. Expenses is a front end. The money moves through Payables. Everything you built in that module applies here unchanged, and that single fact is what makes this the shortest subledger module in the course. Here is what is different from every other module you have built. Your users are the entire company, not the finance team. Design accordingly. If it is hard to use, people will not file expenses — and then they will file three months at once, which is a close problem rather than a usability one. Then the employee-as-supplier concept: employees must exist as payees before anybody can be reimbursed, and that carries an HR dependency with it. And mobile and receipt capture — treated here as…

In this module: Module 10 · Expenses

1. 1How expenses actually flow
2. 2Templates and expense types
3. 3Policies and rate schedules
4. 4Approval and audit
5. 5Corporate cards
6. 6End to end and what breaks
7. 7Lab: build an expense policy