Expense Metrics

Expense metrics provide information on amounts committed, expended, and forecast on requisitions, work orders, and invoices:

• Expense life cycle includes expenses that are incurred throughout the various stages of the expense cycle, including entry, submission, approval, invoiced but not approved, invoiced and approved by supplier, and invoiced and approved.

  You can access expense life cycle data broken out by account, department, manager, supplier, and work order. For each dimension, you can also view the data by expense status.

• Expense variance includes forecast versus actual expense information.

  You can access expense variance data broken out by department, manager, purchase order, and supplier.