For many organizations, the volume of Expense Reports that come into the Accounts Payable department for processing and payment is quite substantial. Depending on your organization, many individuals may be required to enter Expense into the system at any given time. Expense Payable Batches provides users with a tool to streamline the process for the Accounts Payable department in an efficient and accurate manner.
Reimbursing employee expense reports used to require expense reports generation together with the manual entry of the data into the organization's corporate accounting systems. With the introductions of batch processing for these expenses, the manual process is eliminated by submitting and exporting batches of completed user expense reports directly to an accounting system, resulting in an automated data exchange solutions for reimbursement of employee expense reports outside of the application.
Payable Batches process the expense approval process. Within Payable setup you can select the options with which the specific payable batches are posted. These options include: the start date of the payable batch, how often the payable batch is posted, or whether to post the batch in the presence of certain conditions such as whether to post the batch if there are open periods in the batch interval.
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