This job aid covers the manager's review and approval process for expenses. Workday allows managers to review and approve team expense reports from one location, increasing efficiency and streamlining the process.


On this job aid: 

View Your Team's Expense Reports

Review and Approve an Expense Report

Review and Manage Spend Authorizations

Review and Manage Requisitions (Procurement Requests) 

View Your Team's Expense Reports

From the Spend Management application (desktop only):
Spend Management

  1. Click My Team's Expense Reports.
    team spend report

  2. Enter report criteria to filter results.
    report criteria

  3. Click OK.

  4. Note:  You can save common expense report search parameters under filters.  Just enter a name and click save. 

    filter
  5. Your filters will be available under Saved Filters.

    manage filters
  6. Click a report's Related Actions to display available actions or to preview the report.
  7. Click the Expense Report link to view full report details.

    report details



Review and Approve an Expense Report

From your Workday Inbox:

inbox


  1. Under Actions, click the expense report.



  2. Scroll or expand the view of the expense report to display full report details.


  3. Complete the review and select one of the following actions:
    actions
    1. Approve
    2. Send Back (requires comment)
    3. Add Approvers
    4. More
      1. Deny
      2. Close


Note

You can review expense report receipts for each expense line on the Attachments from File area, below Item Details


Review and Manage Spend Authorizations

From the Home page:

  1. Click your Inbox icon.
  2. Click the Spend Authorization approval task.

    spend approval
  3. Review the spend authorization details.
  4. Select Approve, Send Back, Deny, or Cancel.

Review and Manage Requisitions (Procurement Requests) 

From the Home page:

  1. Click your Inbox icon
  2. Click the Requisition approval task.
    requisition task

  3. Review the procurement request details.

    review requisition

  4. Select Approve, Send Back or Add Approvers. You can also select Deny or Cancel from the More button.