PeopleSoft BasicsFor Travel & Expenses

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In PeopleSoft, ALL Non-Payroll payments to Employees,

Prospective Employees, and Student Travelers are made through the

Travel and Expenses module.

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PeopleSoft BasicsFor Travel & Expenses

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Request for Travel Authorization

(“RTA” on “VE5 doc”)

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Travel Authorization

(Travel Auth for short)

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RTA is entered by Admin Assistants

and a few Employees

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Travel Auth isentered by EACH Employee or their assigned “Proxy”

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RTA may be entered and

approved before, during, or after

a trip.

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Travel Auth MUST be Entered

and APPROVED PRIOR to the beginning of

travel.

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An RTA is completed with

guess-timates for all items - lodging,

meals, parking, etc.

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A Travel Auth will auto-populate

some fields depending on the

destination location entered

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A reimbursement payment voucher (VP2, VPE, or VP5)

is entered by Admin Assistants

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A reimbursement Expense Report isentered by EACH Employee or their assigned “Proxy”

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PeopleSoft Basics For Travel & Expenses

DEFINE Separate DEFINE vouchers may be

required to reimburse

expenses from ONE trip (VPE, VP2, or VP5)

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One Expense Report may be

used to reimbursean Employee for

those same expenses!

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In PeopleSoft, employees may be set up

with a set of “default” chart fields so that

accounting information does not need to

be entered for every Expense Report.

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Person of Interest (POI) i.e.: Non-Employees

Before expenses can be reimbursed:

*Prospective employees must first be set up in the HR system as a POI.

*Student travelers must first be set up by the Travel Office as a POI.

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PeopleSoft Basics For Travel & Expenses

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Direct Billed payments for hotels

are processed on “VP6” Travel

vouchers.

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Direct Billed payments for hotels are VENDOR

payments and are processed through

Accounts Payable NOT Travel & Expenses.

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DEFINE

• In DEFINE, payments are made to employees and others receiving reimbursements either by direct deposit or paper check depending on how the individual’s Vendor record is set up.

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be made to employees based on how they are set up to be paid for payroll.

• If an employee receives payroll payments by direct deposit, he will receive expense reimbursements by direct deposit to the same payroll bank account.

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PeopleSoft Basics For Travel & Expenses

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