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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Steps: Set Up Expense Items

Steps: Set Up Expense Items

You can create expense items to define the transactions that payees make on expense reports and spend authorizations. You can link rate tables to expense items so that Workday calculates reimbursement amounts automatically. Example: You can calculate reimbursement amounts based on the rates that you set for different travel destinations.
  1. (Optional) Access the
    Maintain Expense Policy Groups
    task.
    Create expense policy groups so that you can associate them with expense items. You can then assign policy groups to security segments to restrict expense item availability.
    Security:
    Set Up: Expense Item
    domain in the Expenses functional area.
  2. (Optional) Access the
    Maintain Expense Item Group
    task.
    Create expense item groups to organize expense items into subcategories on expense transactions.
    Security:
    Set Up: Expense Item
    domain in the Expenses functional area.
  3. Select
    Expense Item
    as your worktag type and add related worktags on the
    Allowed Worktag Types
    grid. You can then capture additional data at expense line level for more detailed accounting and reporting.
    Security:
    Set Up: Enable Worktags
    domain in these functional areas:
    • Common Financial Management
    • Worktags
  4. (Optional) Access the
    Enable Configurable Expense Item Attributes
    task.
    To capture company-specific information, you can customize up to 5 of some types of expense item attributes.
    Security:
    Set Up: Expense Item
    domain in the Expenses functional area.
  5. (Optional) Create values for the Workday-delivered attributes that you want to add on expense items. Example: Create a list of airlines that payees can select from on the
    Airline
    attribute.
  6. Configure security for expense items.
From the related actions menu of expense items, select
Expense Item
Copy
to create new expense items with similar details. Example: You can create multiple versions of expense items for different years.