Employee Advance
Sometimes employees go outside for company's work and company pays some amount for their expenses in advance. This is when the employee can create an Employee Advance form where details such as the Pu
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Sometimes employees go outside for company's work and company pays some amount for their expenses in advance. This is when the employee can create an Employee Advance form where details such as the Pu
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Once the Employee Advance is created by the Employee, the Expense Approver can submit the advance record after verification. After Employee Advance gets submitted, the accountant releases the payment and makes the Payment Entry.
To access Employee Advance, go to:
Human Resources > Expense Claims > Employee Advance
Go to: Employee Advance > New.
Select Employee to whom you need to give the advance.
Enter the Purpose and Advance Amount.
Select the Advance Account and Mode of Payment.
Save.
Note: The Employee can only Save the Employee Advance but cannot Submit it. It can be only submitted by the Expense Approver.
Employee Advance record can be created by any Employee but they cannot submit the record.
After verification, the Expense Approver can Submit (Accept) the Employee Advance form or Reject the request.
The Payment Entry will look like following:
Note: Make sure the Party Type is selected as Employee and the Reference Type is selected as Employee Advance.
On submission of the Payment Entry/Journal Entry, the paid amount and status will be updated in Employee Advance record.
When advance is paid to an Employee, there are three situations:
The amount may be unused
All of it may be used
Some part may be used
Create the Employee Advance, create a payment entry to indicate that the amount is paid.
If all of the advance is used, it will reflect in the Claimed Amount field
After saving Employee Advance, Employee should . On assignment, approving user will also receive email notification. To automate email notification, you can also setup .
Employee Advance via Payment Entry
After submission of Employee Advance record, accounts user will be able to create a using the 'Create' button.
Employee Advance Payment via Journal Entry
Alternatively, a can also be created against the Employee Advance.
Employee Advance is Paid
Later when the employee claims the expense, an advance record can be fetched in the and linked to the claim record.
If amount is unused, click on the Return button to return the paid Advance amount
If only some amount is claimed and rest is returned, the returned amount will be shown in the 'Returned Amount' field.
