Travel Expenses

Hello Experts
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i have the following questions regarding Travel Expenses:
1. Can an employee change expense report approver to a different manager than his direct supervisor when he creating the expense report? If yes how?
2. Can we automatically route expense reports containing out of policy items to senior management?
3. Can the per-diem be calculated based on employee department?
Thank you in advance. All helpful answers will receive points.
Karan

Hello Manoj
Thanks for the response. The workflow must be routed to immediate supervisor as a default. The employee must also be able to pick a different supervisor in which case the workflow will be routed accordingly and the original manager will receive an email informing him about the expense report to keep him in the loop..
If items are outside of the company policy it should automatically get routed to senior management. I was under the impression that you would set controls to ensure this didnt happen. ie you would enter the maximum allowed amount in the configuration. How will the employee then be able to enter a higher amount?
I think for the different per diem I figured out that you can use reimbursement groups..am I right?
Karan

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