Here at Penn State we have a 2 level approval so our cost object approval flow and our authorized approval flow both require this for any reports that include a cash reimbursement. In some cases if there is allocation on the report there may be more than 2 approvers or if there is a deduction on the report it also includes an accounting review.

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Univ of Utah - University policy requires cost object approval and supervisor which can be the same person. There are other items that require additional approval like business meals and higher dollar expense reports. We are using Concur Detect so that system is helping us approve expense reports. My office is not approving 100% like we were before Detect.

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At UC Berkeley, we try to use the 80/20 rule. Meaning that we try to audit roughly 20% of the transactions that will cover 80% of the dollars. So the cut off we found was anything over $500 for Entertainment reimbursements and $1,000 for travel reimbursements. By only auditing those reports, we cover about 17% of the transactions and about 75% of the total dollars. And this occurs after there has already been approval by the department/funding source before we even take a look at it. We use a different threshold for expense reports that are not related to travel or entertainment, which of late has been about $350 just because it is such a wide variety of types of transactions.