Travel expense report
For business trips and conferences. Instead of one line per receipt, it organizes costs by day and type, which is how travel policies set limits (a nightly lodging cap or a daily meal allowance) and how approvers check them.
- Fields
- 88
- Pages
- 2
- Paper
- Letter
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Before you start
What you need to fill it in
- Trip purpose, destination and travel dates
- Airfare, train or rental car costs
- Hotel folio showing nightly charges
- Meal receipts or your per diem amount
- Local transport, parking, baggage and conference fees
- Any travel advance received
What's inside
88 fields, ready to fill
- 59Typed answersnames, addresses, descriptions
- 12Dateschecked as real dates
- 15Calculatedfill themselves from other fields
- 2Signaturessignature and initials
6 required — the editor counts down how many are left while you fill.
Instructions
How to fill out the Travel expense report
- 1
Describe the trip
Enter purpose, destination, departure and return dates, and any project to charge.
- 2
Fill one row per day
For each day enter the city and the costs by column. The daily total adds across.
- 3
Check column totals
Totals per category appear at the bottom, along with the trip total.
- 4
Subtract the advance
Enter any advance. Amount due shows what the company owes you or you owe back.
- 5
Attach receipts and sign
Merge receipts behind the report, sign it and send it to your approver.
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- Amounts are formula fields: they calculate as you type
- The field navigator counts what's left and jumps to the next field
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Written for: General (US)
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Travel expense report: questions people ask
What is a per diem?
A fixed daily allowance for meals and incidentals instead of actual receipts. If your employer uses one, enter the per diem amount in Meals for each day.
Where do I put airfare booked before the trip?
Put it on the departure day. If the company paid it directly, leave it off or note it, so it is not reimbursed twice.
Are personal days on a business trip reimbursable?
Usually not. List only business days and costs. Ask your travel policy about mixed trips.
What goes in Other?
Conference registration, baggage fees, Wi-Fi, tips not included in meals, and similar trip costs.
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