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Travel News

December 18, 2024

The Travel & Expense Management team is excited to announce that starting Thurs Jan 9, 2025, a new workflow will go live in the Concur system. This update will streamline the approval process and improve efficiencies by routing approvals based on the allocations entered in a Request...

April 1, 2024

The Office of the Controller receives numerous requests for exceptions to policy every week. We would like to reiterate that exceptions to policy should be infrequent in nature and must align to a bona fide University business purpose....

September 25, 2023

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July 7, 2023

Effective Friday July 14, updates will be implemented within Oracle and Concur to streamline approval workflow for Research Administrators (RA) and Fiscal approvers.   

Oracle Updates

September 8, 2022

An announcement from Associate Vice Chancellor and Controller Amanda Preston-Nelson:

May 25, 2022

Division colleagues,

As part of DFA’s ongoing effort to improve service times, streamline processes and create synergies in the campus community, Business and Financial Services (BFS) will realign some of our core teams. This alignment uses the strengths of BFS team members who perform...

January 5, 2022

The University’s mileage reimbursement rates for expenses incurred in connection with the business use of a private automobile will increase in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service standard mileage rates published in IRS Notice 2022-03. The following new rates are effective for expenses...

November 1, 2021

Campuses have been experiencing difficulty arranging meals for events based on the existing rates for business meals and entertainment. The last time the meal rates for business and entertainment were increased was in 2016. After discussing with the campus controllers, we have elected to...

July 1, 2021

Controllers and AP Directors/Travel Managers,

The California Attorney General’s office updated the list of states where state funds may not be used for travel.

August 7, 2020

Dear Campus Community,

We understand many faculty, staff and students have questions regarding university-related travel, particularly in light of the COVID-19 situation during summer and fall 2020. We also acknowledge the desire to make international travel plans in the near...

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