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Can an approved expense be deleted?
Can an approved expense be deleted?
Updated over 9 months ago

Question:

  • There's a duplicate approved Expense Report, how can I delete it?

  • There's a mistake with approving an Expense Request, where can I delete it?

  • An Expense was accidentally approved

  • Deleting an Approved Expense

Answer:

If an Expense is approved in error or approved and not needed, you can follow the steps below to unlink it from the budget & archive it not to be used again. These steps will help you delete an approved expense request

  1. Create a new expense request; for the total cost, add a negative value & in the comments, add the original approved expense number (exp: if the approved was for $123.00, the new expense should be -123.00 in value)

  2. Submit your negative valued expense for approval

  3. Any user who has access to the Accounts Payable tab can now go into Unbilled Expenses

  4. Click the

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    button beside the expense items for the original and the adjustment items

  5. Select Archive.

Additional Information:

  • Use the Comments to "link" the expenses, add the number of the original expense to the negative valued expense and vice versa

  • Your budget should now be balanced and the original expense along with the negative valued expense should be archived.

  • Remember to Archive BOTH expenses once the steps are completed

  • If the expense request used a credit card, you can archive it by following the steps in How to Archive Credit Card Items in Reconciliation.

  • Users must have Credit Card Reconciliation permission under "Accounts Payable" to archive items within Credit Card Reconciliation.

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