Please review the information below concerning COVID-19 related expenses and university travel.
Exception for Non-refundableTravel Expenses
If faculty or staff wish to cancel travel plans due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the University is hereby granting an exception to the University’s Travel & Business Expense Policy (FN28, formerly 05-07-01) for any otherwise non-reimbursable University-related travel booked through May 31, 2020. The date will be reassed as the University continues to monitor the COVID-19 outbreak and may extend the deadline as conditions evolve. This applies to both conference expenses paid by schools and regional campuses, as well as grant-funded travel. The original memo from the Provost can be found here.
Directions to reconcile cancelled travel and other emergency expenses in Concur
- Log into Concur to create an expense report
- Please put all expenses associated with this trip onto 1 expense report – both charges and any credits that you receive.
- If you’ve paid for your expense(s) with the University Travel Card and the charge and credit transactions net to zero dollars, you must still create an expense report and include these transactions.
- For all cancellations, either charged on a Travel Card or a personal credit/debit card, a copy of the cancellation confirmation must be included in the receipt packet to be considered valid.
- For all expenses and credits related to this trip, please use the COVID-19 Cancelled Travel expense type. This will work with both charges and credits and will assist us in keeping track of cancelled travel during this time.
- For any unbudgeted/emergency expenses (such as purchases of disinfectant wipes, gloves, etc), please use this expense type in Concur.
Unplanned/Unbudgeted COVID-19 Expenses
In preparation of the threat of COVID-19, you may be incurring unplanned and unbudgeted expenses such as the purchase of hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies as well as unrecoverable costs related to canceled events. These types of expenses should be recorded as follows in order to allow us to track these expenses appropriately. More detailed examples will follow as we continue our outreach to departmental administrators.
In PRISM – use subcode 8119
Using Travel Card, Concur – use COVID-19 Cancelled Travel expense type
Using Purchasing Card – reconcile transactions using subcode 8119
We will contine to update this page as we receive more information. If you have any questions, please contact the Business Office at 814-269-7040 or upjbills@pitt.edu.