Step 1: Who can Travel and what is considered Travel?
- Who can Travel:
- Any current Employee, Student or Affiliate.
- What is considered Travel:
- Any mileage, even around town, is considered travel.
Food and lodging will only be reimbursed when the trip is over 35 miles from the traveler's duty post.
Step 2: What Travel should be pre-authorized?
All Travel on behalf of The University of Arizona must be pre-authorized, even if expenses will not be paid by the the university. This will ensure that:
- Travel plans have been authorized by the appropriate departmental approving authority,
- Funds are available,
- The traveler can document their official travel status if needed for Risk Management purposes,
- The travel has a legitimate business purpose; in the best interest of the university and
- The travel meets the IRS Accountable Plan.
Step 3: How do I authorize Travel?
Fill out a Travel Authorization with the following information:
Required:
- The Traveler's name
- The Traveler's EID
- The dates of travel
- The destination of the trip
- The purpose of the trip, which must be in the best interest of the university
- Approval by the Traveler's supervisor of the trip and any exceptions:
- The traveler will be on long term travel status (more than 30 days). See additional requirements for funding and per diem on long term travel.
- Personal time will be taken in combination with travel.
- Use of airfare other than coach/economy.
- Use of private, chartered or rented aircraft or rented motor vehicle.
- Vehicle taken out of state (whether private, rented or state-owned).
- Lodging charges in excess of established policy limits, which is not designated lodging as shown on a conference brochure.
- Foreign travel, excluding Canada and Mexico, on State accounts.
- Have the Travel Authorization approved by the Traveler's supervisor, except in the case of Vice-Presidents and Deans who the President has authorized to approve on their own behalf.
Optional:
- A travel budget,
- Requesting an encumbrance or
- Requesting a travel advance. If an advance is requested the Traveler and the account approver must sign. Travel Advances may only be issued to active University employees, or current graduate students whose travel is funded with gift and designated accounts or a sponsored projects account.
Step 4: How do I fund Travel?
- The J P Morgan corporate card is available to University of Arizona employees at no cost. Its use is limited to official university business travel. It is a personal liability card with payment terms similar to most major credit cards. The J P Morgan Corporate Card, however, allows a slightly longer window of payment opportunity before delinquency fees and interest charges are assessed. This gives the traveler adequate time to file for reimbursement of expenses, if they turn in their expenses immediately on returning from their trip, before the charges appear on their J P Morgan statement.
- Conference Fees can be paid with a Purchasing Card or dPR.
- Airfare can be paid with a Purchasing Card or Check Request.
- The traveler can pay with personal funds and turn in an expense report. If expenses are turned in immediately on returning from their trip, reimbursement is usually in the traveler's bank account when the credit card bill is received.
- The traveler can request a Travel Advance which will need to be paid back within 10 days of returning from the trip.
Step 5: What is an acceptable receipt?
An acceptable receipt has the following:
- An itemized list of what was purchased,
- The amount of the purchase,
- The date(s) of the purchase.
- The name of the vendor and
- The business purpose of the purchase.
If the trip was to a conference you will need to turn in with your receipts a copy of the conference brochure. This will show the designated lodging, any meals included in the registration, which will need to be taken off the per diem, and the opening and closing dates of the conference.
Print off a copy of "Smooth Sailing: A Guide to UA Travel" 
and the "Travel Tips & Receipt Envelope" 
which will give you additional tips and a place to put your receipts.
Step 6: Enjoy your trip!
