PPD44: Travel Documentation on Sponsored Awards—The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

What documentation should I have to support the expenses submitted on a Travel Reimbursement Form? Does it matter what agency is supporting the award? When is the best time and what is the best type of documentation to have to support the expenses? Experienced administrators from Research Accounting will explain University policies as well as some agency-specific rules for documenting travel expenses along with real work experiences and information from agency travel audits.

What You Will Learn:
- Appropriate documentation needed for travel reimbursement from sponsored awards
- The best time (or maybe the only time) to obtain documentation/justification for certain expenditures?
- Differences between agencies regarding travel expenditures and destinations
- Special requirements for foreign travel
- Importance of providing travelers information on appropriate documentation before they travel
- Requirements about the BU travel policy and why it may be allowable to be reimbursed from BU funds but not sponsor funds
- What is “reasonable, allocable and allowable” have to do with travel reimbursement

Who Should Attend:
Departmental Administrators responsible for booking travel arrangements or reviewing and signing travel reimbursement requests or travel advances. 

 

Tim Reuter and Craig Gerome, Research Accounting
Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Human Resources Training Room (25 Buick Street, Second Floor)
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