Expense Category
Expense categories are used to group expenses. Popular categories include transportation, lodging, mileage, and entertainment. Each expense category is linked to an account. When an employee enters an expense report, they select a category for each expense, and the expense automatically posts to the associated expense account. Note that new expense categories cannot be created at the time an expense report is entered.
If you use NetSuite OneWorld, be aware that an expense category is available to only those subsidiaries assigned to the account linked with the expense category. If you want to enable intercompany expense transactions, you should set up expense categories linked to expense accounts that are available to all subsidiaries, for use in these transactions. For intercompany expense transactions, users cannot save expense lines unless they contain expense categories available to both the employee subsidiary and customer subsidiary.
To enter expense categories, go to Setup > Accounting > Setup Tasks > Expense Categories > New.
For help working with this record in the UI, see Creating an Expense Category.
The internal ID for this record is expensecategory.
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For information about scripting with this record in SuiteScript, see the following help topics:
Supported Script Types
The expense category record is scriptable in server SuiteScript only.
Supported Functions
The expense category record is fully scriptable — it can be created, updated, copied, deleted, and searched using SuiteScript.