Warning and Error Messages

When you enter an expense, depending on the policy rules and processing option settings, the system might display a warning or error message under these circumstances:

  • An expense exceeds the allowable amount specified.

  • If the system issues an error message, you cannot continue entering expenses and you must change the expense information.

  • If the system issues a warning message, you can continue entering expenses. The system marks the expense with X (for exception) in the first column on the Edit Expense Report Information form.

  • The expense is a duplicate.

    The system issues a warning message and marks the expense with X (for exception) in the first column on the Edit Expense Report Information form. The system requires an audit for all expense reports that have duplicate expenses.

When you submit the expense report for processing, the system does not process the expense report under these conditions:

  • The expense report is missing information.

  • The date specified in the Expense Report End Date field is more than one day in the future.

  • You entered corporate credit card transactions and the processing option is set to require matching. This applies only to credit cards that are defined in user-defined code (UDC) table 09E/PM with a special handling code of 20.

    See Entering Expense Reports.