Oracle Self-Service Applications

CHAPTER 8Expense Report Processing

Expense report processing is broken down into four main steps: entering expense reports, management approval, auditing, and exporting to Payables for payment.

High-Level Overview of Expense Report Processing

Before providing the details of how to process expense reports, it is good to understand the highlevel steps that take place, as shown in the following illustration. After the employee submits the expense report, it is routed for approval and for auditing at the same time. If it meets the auditing criteria, it must be audited as well as approved prior to being eligible to be exported to Payables. During the export process, Oracle will check if a supplier record is already created for this employee, and if ...