Approval controls and expense documentation

Skills you'll practise

• Check a purchase request against an approval policy
• Recognize split purchases made to avoid a limit
• Check an expense claim for receipts, business purpose and self-approval
• Explain what's needed to fix a non-compliant request

Course outline

1. 1.Approvals and expense claimsVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Limits, splits and self-approvalLesson · 14 min
3. 3.Expense policy in practice: mileage, meals and receiptsLesson · 13 min
4. 4.Delegation of authority and approval evidenceLesson · 12 min
5. 5.Approval controls and expense documentation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Expense claim with missing receiptsScenario
7. 7.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• General accounts-payable controls: purchase-order matching, approvals, segregation of duties