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Expense claims and petty cash

Claim back what you paid for the firm, have a partner decide it, and keep petty cash floats with vouchers, top ups and counts.

Claim what you paid

  1. Open Finance, Expense claims, My claims, and start a claim.
  2. Add each item: the matter, the type, the amount, the date and the receipt.
  3. Submit it.

A partner who is not you decides it from To decide: approve, or refuse with a reason. Once approved, the accounts team pays you back from the office account, and each item becomes a disbursement on its matter.

Expense claims from draft to paid.
Expense claims from draft to paid.

Petty cash

Each petty cash float has a running balance.

  • Pay a voucher from it, against a matter where it is a disbursement.
  • Top up the float from the office account.
  • Count it. Where the count differs from the balance, the difference posts to the books only once somebody approves it.
Petty cash floats with their balances.
Petty cash floats with their balances.

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