Finance & AccountingOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Triages expense claims against a supplied expense policy using a fixed disposition table, separates a policy breach from a tax or evidence problem, and escalates bribery, conflict-of-interest and fraud indicators out of the finance queue instead of deciding them. Refuses to rule on a claim when the policy text, the receipt evidence or the business purpose was not supplied. Use when reviewing a claim or a batch of claims, when a claimant disputes a rejection, when writing a rejection that must stand up, or when deciding whether a spend pattern needs escalation. Trigger on 'expense claim', 'is this claimable', 'expense policy', 'reject this claim', 'entertainment expense', …