Travel News

To ensure responsible stewardship of university resources, please note that reimbursement requests totaling less than $15.00 for out-of-pocket expenses will not be processed due to the administrative costs associated with handling Concur expense reports.

Effective June 23, 2025, all flight bookings in Business or First Class will require an additional layer of approval. Please plan travel accordingly, as this change may impact on the timing of your ticket purchase and approval process.

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...

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....

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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

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

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...

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...

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...