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how to create an employee reimbursable expense against a job

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this is how it needs to work, and MS needs to fix it ! Don't create vendors, or bank accounts. Use the Employee object and employee posting group. I have described how it needs to work. Maybe someone at MS can to work on it as we paid for a product that should work. We should not have to come up with work arounds

. Employee buys a train ticket for travel so they will go into a journal an enter the gl expense account, and then the Job information, with the Employee posting group which is set to another GL account for "Employee Expenses", and the balancing account needs to be the employee, not a "bank".  This way when you "Pay Employee" you would see their expenses against a project that they should be reimbursed. Give the employee the same status as a bank, credits and debits, and it is a liability as well. Not a vendor, then every employee needs to be a vendor, how stupid can you get! The design logic is flawed. I wish someone from MS would get this solved. MS should be ashamed and should provide a refund because this is a basic function.

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  • TobyT Profile Picture
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    Hi Steven,

    I have thanks. I am not sure why MS doesn't think that this is high priority. The data structure is compromised for auditing purposes let alone for reporting. Manipulating data is not a good practice and degrades data integrity. I will push this high up the chain as MS accountable for this oversight.

  • TobyT Profile Picture
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    Thank you Josh, I have been trying to contact Zetadocs, and hopefully after 4 days I will get a response. One worry I have as we have seen that ISV's go out of business so longevity is something to consider. I have seen Expensify go through different stages from being the solution of choice to been not compatible with the UK version and now we don't see them at all.

    Fundamentally this is a simply solution that I have described and for auditing purposes alone this should be fixed, there is no logical data flow and in the end if the data is being manipulated the room for error grows exponentially.

    I will look into to the two other options you have listed to see if they are viable solutions. I think the message for me is it is very difficult to recommend MS as a solution to my customers, SAP is the gold standard in almost every area. In summary I look for solutions not problems and software has to stand up to that simple statement. Solutions are to enhance the way we work instead we have made an industry out of fixing products that should work. Don't get me wrong I am a business advisor who helps business with their digital transformations, and there is enough work just to get businesses to utilise technology to its full potential and improve their performance along with finding new ways of doing things with the added technological capability.

    Toby

  • JAngle Profile Picture
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    Granted you’re looking for answers higher up the food chain and Steve’s suggestion helps things on it’s way. Could be sometime till your voice is heard or the idea is implemented. Here are the 3 apps which solve this problem:

    Zetadocs Expenses

    Continia Expenses

    Progressus PSA

    As it’s subscription software you can drop it if the feature ever becomes standard or you decide to go elsewhere. Given MSFT have such a large ISV network they can be careful about what they make standard product.

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    Toby,

    you can submit this an an idea to be voted on by the BC community of users. Here is link: experience.dynamics.com/.../

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