The new eExpenses application was developed in-house under project FIN098 with basic functionality to replace the end-of-live ABS application.  The new application replaced essential functionality to allow expense claims to be submitted, approved and paid.  The new application was then further enhanced as part of a sponsor funded project (FIN102) to allow improved electronic receipt handling in eExpenses, to provide electronic receipt viewing in eFinancials for audit purposes, eAuthorisations enhancements for recording financial limits & setting-up proxy users, and to address user feedback from the initial pilot in IS.

This follow-on project aims to enhance the application further to fill the functionality gaps identified with the previous ABS expenses application.  Items under consideration will be: -

• Enhancements to the interface to eFin to pass additional information required for research accounting
• Facility for approvers to overide financial coding on claims to reduce mis-coding in eFinancials
• Enforce financial limits so that approvers can only approve claims with their approved limit
• Address priority feedback from the pilot to allow wider rollout of the system
• Enhancements to eAuthorisations to allow School Admins to securely set-up up local users
• Facility within eExpenses to view historical claims made using the previous ABS expenses application
• Links to pre-existing WebFirst & BI reporting from within eExpenses to faciliate easier reporting

• Other prioritised requirements within the available budget