Section 1

Ms. Gonzales we would like to thank you for this opportunity that you have given us to help look
into the travel expenses of the company. Our group consists of Stephanie Leon and Gary Lo. We
were asked to examine the travel expense of Tampa Electronics Company and determine if there
is any potentially fraudulent travel reimbursements in the books. This can include violations of
the companys rules such as having an expense for both a taxi and a personal car, airfare and a
personal car or going over 20% of the approval amount. We will also be looking into other
possible violations that can show signs of fraud such as employees being at two places at the
same time or any stale approvals being used for a recent trip.
To check for any violations or signs of fraud we used the data from the company under the file
TampaTravelExpenseData. Using basic formulas in excel along with pivot charts we were able
to obtain the information we need from each test. Some of the formulas we used were
VLOOKUP (), IF (), COUNTIF (), LEFT (), and SUM ().
The most concerning data that we found was that James Smith appeared after completing many
of our tests. He appeared on the test of having an expense for a car rental and taxi, having an air
fare expense and car mileage, car image and a taxi, and submitting an expense reimbursement
before going on the trip and getting it approved. We believe that the company should look into
what he is doing and see if there is a mix up or possible fraud.
There are two more parts in our report, in part two there is a table which lists the different tests
that we did and has a summary of our findings for the tests. In part three there is a more detailed
description on how we got the information from our tests. What we believe the test means
mainly if it is a sign of fraud or just an incident that needs to be looked into. A list of up to
twenty findings and if there are more than twenty findings then it will state how many were
omitted from the report.

Section 2
Test #
1

Title of the test

Verify if an expense
exceeded 20% above
approved amount

Verify if employees
receives approval before
the trip begins
Verify if Employee
submitted both expense:
Part A: Car Rental and
taxi
Part B: Car mileage and
car rental expense

Summary of the test results

There are 3 employees violated the use of expense:
Jennifer Hill (124070)
William Davis (124068)
Marie Redwood (124553)
There are approximately 713 employees begin their trip
before the approval date.
Part A: Two employees committed violation:
James Smith
Maria Garcia
Part B: There are no violation
Part C: Two employees committed violation:
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Part C: Airfare and Car

Mileage
Part D: Personal Car
Mileage and taxi
Part E: Expense in all
category

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11

12

James smith
Susan Lee

Part D: Two employees committed violation:

James Smith
Marie Redwood

Part E: none of them submitted all expense

Testing if employees are
Two people submitted trips that over lapped
in two places at one time
Marie Redwood
William Davis
Testing if Benfords law is The data for the total expenses does not follow
followed for total
Benfords law
expenses
Verify if mileage has
Eight individuals submitted mileage expense that were
correctly calculated based over cities mileage, resulting in violation
on distance between cities
Per diem verification
1 violation: Susan Lee approval no 1240064, per diem
should be $250 instead of $400
Some employees started trips in 2015 and ends in 2016
but had per diem rate was from 2015 for the entire trip.
Testing if the date that the 5 people submitted their expense request before getting
expenses are submitted
it approved
are after the approval date
Marie Redwood
and date of travel.
Susan Lee
Mary Moore
Robert Johnson
James Smith

Testing if all trips are

approved and that
approval numbers are not
used more than once.
Verify if any expense
reimbursement are more
than double average for
that category and city
Testing if any submitted
expenses are duplicates
Testing if they travel on
specific Holidays
(Christmas, New Years

6 people submitted their expense request before going

on the trip
There is one incident where the approval number is used
more than once.
124500 by Susan Lee
There is
one violation for Airfare in Orlando
one violation for hotel in Miami
There are 29 incidents were two or more employees
submitted the same expenses in the air fare, hotel,
mileage, car rental, taxi, and per diem categories.
There are 57 trips that happened during one of the
chosen holidays.

Eve, New Years Day,

Thanksgiving,
Independence Day, Labor
Day)
Testing if there are any
stale approvals

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There are two stale approvals.

#124041
#125339

Section 3
Test 1: Verify if an expense exceeded 20% above approved amount
We found 5 trips that have total expenses exceeded 20% of the maximum amount approved
associated with follow Expense no and Salesperson: Jennifer Hill (124070), William Davis
(124068), and Marie Redwood (124553). We also find out that Marie Redwood appeared twice
on the expense variation.
These five finding are highly indicate frauds. The excel spreadsheet has approved that those
three trips are 20% more than the max amount. Management should investigate associated trips
and employees to find out if potential fraud were accrued.
Steps:

Use SUM function to total the expense of each trip.

Use VLOOKUP to match approval no with MaxAmount and Employees name for each
trip.
Use IF function to label any trip that the Total is more than 20% of the MaxAmount as
violation.
Filer out violation

Excel table finding:

Test 2: verify if employees receives approval before the trip begins.

We found that approximately 713 employees begin their trips before receives the approval date.
Theres highly potential of error of procedure and there is nothing to do with fraud. Management
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should make some adjustment on procedure of giving a correct approval date before mistakes
happen again.
Steps:

Delete out some unnecessary data such as (Travel end, AirFare, Hotel, Mileage,
CarRental, Taxi, and PerDiem.)
Use VLOOKUP to match Approval no to Approval date for each trip.
Use IF function to check if approval date is less than the travel start date. (=if
C2<B2,correct,incorrect)
Filter out incorrect
Use COUNT to check how many incorrect appear.

Excel table finding:

Expe nse D
noa te
Approva lno
T ra ve lSta rt
T ra ve lEnd
a pprova l da te
da y diffe rnc
5640594 1/12/2015
124042
1/5/2015
1/9/2015
1/8/2015
-3
5640595 1/13/2015
124040
1/5/2015
1/9/2015
1/7/2015
-2
5640597 1/15/2015
124049
1/10/2015
1/12/2015
1/11/2015
-1
5640600 1/17/2015
124045
1/7/2015
1/11/2015
1/9/2015
-2
5640606 1/20/2015
124047
1/9/2015
1/13/2015
1/13/2015
-4
5640607 1/20/2015
124053
1/13/2015
1/17/2015
1/14/2015
-1
5640609 1/21/2015
124054
1/13/2015
1/14/2015
1/15/2015
-2
5640610 1/22/2015
124057
1/14/2015
1/15/2015
1/19/2015
-5
5640613 1/23/2015
124066
1/19/2015
1/20/2015
1/21/2015
-2
5640614 1/24/2015
124071
1/21/2015
1/23/2015
1/22/2015
-1
5640616 1/27/2015
124060
1/17/2015
1/20/2015
1/18/2015
-1
5640617 1/27/2015
124063
1/17/2015
1/22/2015
1/20/2015
-3
5640619 1/27/2015
124070
1/21/2015
1/22/2015
1/22/2015
-1
5640620 1/29/2015
124064
1/18/2015
1/23/2015
1/26/2015
-8
5640622 1/29/2015
124073
1/22/2015
1/25/2015
1/23/2015
-1
5640623 1/30/2015
124067
1/19/2015
1/24/2015
1/25/2015
-6
5640624 1/30/2015
124077
1/25/2015
1/27/2015
1/26/2015
-1
5640626
2/1/2015
124068
1/21/2015
1/26/2015
1/27/2015
-6
5640627
2/1/2015
124074
1/23/2015
1/25/2015
1/28/2015
-5
5640628
2/1/2015
124076
1/24/2015
1/29/2015
1/27/2015
-3

713

Test 3: Verify if Employee submit both expenses

Part A- (Car Rental and taxi)
We found around 19 transaction that has submitted both Car Rental and taxi. Employees who
submitted both are James Smith and Maria Garcia. However, James Smith appears to have
18times of both transaction and Maria Garcia appear once. As a result, theres a chance that
James Smith is making a fraud transaction. Maria Garcia may just did it accidently.
Steps:

Delete unnecessary data such as( travel start and end, expense no, expense date)
Use VLOOKUP to match approval no with spon.
Use VLOOKUP again to match spon with employees name.
Filter out none 0 for car rental and taxi

Excel sheet finding:

Part B: (Car mileage and Car Rental Expense)

There no sufficient evidence to prove that some employee submitted car mileage and car rental
expense at the same time.
Excel Sheet Finding:

Part C (Airfare and car Mileage)

Theres only two transaction that has Airfare and mileage, and we found out that there are two
employees submitted both AirFare and Mileage, which are James Smith and Susan Lee.
Steps:

Delete any unnecessary data

Filter out none 0 for Airfare and car Mileage\

Excel sheet finding:

AirFare
Hotel
310
549

Mileage

632
580

CarRental Taxi

226.8
222.75

0
0

PerDiem
0
0

spon
200
250

Employee
James
1010 Smith
1001 Susan Lee

Part D (Personal Car Mileage and taxi)

Theres a 13 transaction for both Car Mileage and taxi. We found out the employees who involve
in this transactions are James smith and Marie Redwood.
Steps:

Delete any unnecessary data

Filter out any none 0 for Mileage and Taxi

Excel sheet finding:

AirFare Hotel

Mileage CarRental Taxi

PerDiem

620

56.7

110

250

332

164.43

85

200

144

56.7

85

50

645

222.75

75

250

735

180.67

95

280

636

62.3

120

224

132

62.3

95

56

122

62.3

130

56

86

62.3

75

56

214

62.3

55

112

158

62.3

100

56

147

62.3

45

56

174

62.3

80

112

spon Employee
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
James
1010 Smith
Marie
1009 Redwood
James
1010 Smith
Marie
1009 Redwood
James
1010 Smith
Marie
1009 Redwood

Part E: Expenses in all category:

The Excel shows that there are no employee submit all expenses.
In part 3, employee who appeared the most is James Smith and Maria Redwood. This two are
highly suspicious on making a fraud. Management should red flag these two employees and
investigate there transaction.
Test 4: Testing if employees are in two places at one time
We found two people submitted trips that over lapped, Marie Redwood and William
Davis. We believe this could be an indicator of fraud because they should not be able to
be in two places at once and they should not be on two trips at one time.

Use VLOOKUP to get the employees name on the same page.

Sort by employee name and then by travel state date.
In a new column create a section which will have the difference in time from one trip to
another.
In the column subtract the previous travel end date by the current travel start date. Filter
the new column to show only negative numbers.
The answers will be the negative numbers that are in between the same person.

Excel table finding:

Expe nse no
D a te
Approva lno
T ra ve lSta rt
T ra ve lEnd
e mploye e
time diff
5641681
9/8/2016
125124
8/29/2016
9/1/2016 Marie Redwood
-2
5640786 4/28/2015
124234
4/21/2015
4/22/2015 William Davis
-1

Test 5: Testing if Benfords law is followed for total expenses

We found that the data does not follow Benfords law. This means there could be fraud in
the data because the data does not follow the standard.

Calculate the total expense which includes Air fare, Hotel, Mileage, Car Rental, Taxi, and
Per Diem.
Create a column and title it first in that column you will have the first digit for each total
expense. To get the answer using =left ().
In the parenthesis first put the whole column from total expense then select the total
expense in that row.
Create a column that goes from 1 to 9.
To the right of the number type =countif ()
In the parenthesis first put the whole first column second click the number on the left.
For Benfords law the amount of ones should be the most then get smaller and smaller
by about 30% each time.

Excel table finding:

first
7
8
6
2
1
1
4
1
5
1
8
1
2
6

Benford's law
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Chart Title
637
81
39
65
66
94
107
102
110

700
600
500
400

300
200
100

0
1

Test 6: Verify if mileage has correctly calculated based on distance between cities.
There are 8 employees who has incorrect of actual distance compared to the mileage that they
have traveled. The employees who got involved are Maria Garcia (124120), Robert Johnson
(124501, 124509), Mary Moore (124502), Marie Redwood (124507, 124680), and Susan Lee
(124500) and William Davis (124683). In Excel, Robert and Marie appeared twice, so they
intentionally travel to somewhere where they shouldnt be and claim extra reimbursement from
mileage.
Steps:

Delete some unnecessary data such as (Airfare, Hotel, Car Rental, Taxi and Per Diem)
Use VLOOKUP to match approval no with cpno and countries that they travel
Use VLOOKUP again to match countries to distance.
Filter out only 2015 for travel start and end date.
Use the mileage rate for 2015 to calculate the correct mileage. The formula is (distance *
mileage rate for 2015 and then *2).
Filter out 2016 and then apply the same format as 2015.
Use IF function to see if current mileage is matching with the correct mileage. If it
matches, then it is correct, if not, then there is a problem. Formula is (=if
(mileage=correct mileage,ok,problem).

Excel sheeting finding:

Mile a ge
546
222.75
56.7
372.6
56.7
226.8
244.75
244.75

sta te
Birmingham
Miami
Tallahassee
Miami
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Tallahassee

D ista nce
602
280
275
280
203
203
275
275

D ista nce
diffe rnce
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect

spno
1007
1005
1003
1009
1005
1001
1009
1002

e mploye e
Maria Garcia
Robert Johnson
Mary Moore
Marie Redwood
Robert Johnson
Susan Lee
Marie Redwood
William Davis

Test 7: Per Diem verification

We found one per diem violation (Approvalno 124064, Susan Lee). Also, there are several trips
that started on 2015 and ended in 2016 that used per diem rate of 2015 for the entire trips.

The per diem violation may or may not be a fraud. Considering the numbers of trips that Ms. Lee
took, it might be a mistake as there is only one violation. However, the company should be
cautious and check Ms. Lees reimbursement claims carefully in the future for possible
frauds. Also, we have adjusted per diem amount for trips that started on 2015 and ended on
2016. The company may want to reimburse those associated employees the difference.
Steps:

Subtract TravelStart from TravelEnd from data on travel expenses sheet.

Input per diem rate based on year traveled. Leave out the trips that started in 2015 but
ended in 2016.
Compute correct per diem amount based on correct rate for each year.
Compute per diem for trips that started on 2015 and ended on 2016 manually.
Use IF function to verify per Diem reported match with correct per diem. If not, label
potential violation.
Filter out potential violation to examine each case.

Excel sheet finding:

T ra ve lSta rt T ra ve lEnd
Pe rD ie m cpno
1/18/2015
1/23/2015
400
1001
12/28/2015
1/2/2016
250
1007
12/27/2015
1/1/2016
250
1004
12/31/2015
1/3/2016
150
1008
12/31/2015
1/3/2016
150
1001
12/28/2015
1/2/2016
250
1010
12/31/2015
1/5/2016
250
1006

e mploye e
Susan Lee
Maria Garcia
Tom Anderson
Jennifer Hill
Susan Lee
James Smith
Susan Taylor

corre ct Pe rdie m
250
262
256
168
168
262
280

Pe rdie m che ck
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect
incorrect

Test 8: Testing is the date that the expenses are submitted are after the approval date and
date of travel.
We found that there are 5 people submitted their expense request before getting it approved and
6 people submitted their expense request before going on the trip. This may not be fraud because
they are going on the trip. Instead it might mean that the employees need to be retrained in the
procedure of what to do before going on their trip.

Use VLOOKUP so the approval date is on the same page as the other data.
Make a column that says approval before submitted. In this column use the formula =if
().
In the parenthesis first put the approval date then the less than sign and the travel state
date, put what you want it to say when true and what you want to say when false.
When it is false that indicates that the date the expense was submitted was before it was
approved.
Make another column that says start before submitted.
Do the same thing except it should have the travel start date is less than the submitted
date.

Excel table finding:

D a te
Approva lno
T ra ve lSta rt T ra ve lEnd Approva l da te
1/1/2009
125325
12/20/2016 12/25/2016
12/30/2016
1/1/2009
125334
12/26/2016 12/28/2016
12/29/2016
1/2/2009
125332
12/24/2016 12/27/2016
12/28/2016
1/2/2009
125335
12/26/2016 12/30/2016
12/29/2016
1/2/2009
125337
12/26/2016 12/31/2016
12/28/2016
1/3/2009
125336
12/26/2016 12/30/2016
12/28/2016
1/4/2009
125340
12/29/2016 12/30/2016
12/30/2016
1/6/2009
125339
12/28/2016 12/31/2016
1/4/2009

Approva l
be fore
submit
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
ok

Sta rt
be fore
submit
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong

Employe e
Marie Redwood
Susan Lee
Mary Moore
Robert Johnson
James Smith
Marie Redwood
Mary Moore
William Davis

Test 9: Testing if all trips are approved and that approval numbers are not used more
than once.
We found that there is one incident where the approval number is used more than once. It is
approval number 124500 and it was submitted by Susan Lee. This could be an indicator of fraud

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because it could mean she was trying to get more money out of the company or it could be that
she thought that she never submitted the expense so she submitted it again on accident.

Create a column that says duplicates and use the formula =if (countif (put the whole
approvals column, the approval number in that row)>1,incorrect, correct).
If the new column says correct then there are no duplicates.
If the column say incorrect then there is more than one of these approval numbers being
used.
To check quicker use the filter feature in excel and filter out the correct part, that way
there is only incorrect.

Excel table finding:

Expe nse no
D a te
Approva lno
T ra ve lSta rt
T ra ve lEnd
D uplica te
5641050 9/23/2015
124500
9/18/2015
9/22/2015 Incorrect
5641067 10/4/2015
124500
9/24/2015
9/27/2015 Incorrect

Employe e
Susan Lee
Susan Lee

Test 10: Expense reimbursement request more than double the average for that city
According on excel, we have found that there is one violation for Airfare in Orlando and one
violation for hotel in Miami. For Airfare, the difference is only $6.67, so it is unlikely to be
consider as a fraud. It may cause by system error that makes the airfare amount slightly higher
than double average. However, for hotel in Orlando, theres a suspicious amount happened. The
difference is $409.48, which is twice as higher than the double average. As a result, there is
possible fraud in this transaction.
Steps for Airfare:

Use VLOOKUP to match approval number with city.

Then use filter to deselect the 0 from the airfare column
On City column, select only one city as we want to calculate the result individually
Copy the data into a new spreadsheet.
Calculate the average of airfare using (=average(range)), and then times 2 to get the
double average of airfare
Use IF function to see if double average is greater than airfare. If it is true then it will be
ok, if not theres a potential fraud.
Excel sheet for Airfare

Expenseno Date
Approvalno TravelStart TravelEnd AirFare ave*2
check
5641055 9/27/2015
124503
9/20/2015 9/25/2015
1028 1021.333 problem
5641797 11/12/2016
125242
11/2/2016 11/5/2016
220 1021.333 ok
5641855 12/13/2016
125306
12/8/2016 12/10/2016
284 1021.333 ok

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city
Orlando
Orlando
Orlando

Steps for Hotel:

This time we include 0 for airfare as if we take the 0 out, it will affect the accuracy of the
data.
Filter out the city individually and copy it into a new spreadsheet.
Calculate the difference between travel start and end date by (travel end travel start)
Calculate the average for hotel and days for hotel by (= average (range))
Calculate the double average by (average for hotel/ average for days in hotel)*2
Calculate the actual cost for hotel by ( hotel/ days for hotel)
We are using IF function to compare the double average with the actual cost for hotel, if
double average is greater than actual cost for hotel, then it is correct. If not, there is a
potential fraud occurred

At the end we find one problem for each hotel and airfare.
violation Airfare
Atlanta
Bimin
charlotte
Tallahassee
Jacksonville
Miami
mobile
Orlando

AirFa re

violation Hotel
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

H ote l
0

da ys for a ctua l
hote l
cost
a ve *2
che ck
650
1
650 240.5201 violation

0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0

city
Miami

e mploye e
Jennifer Hill

Test 11: Testing if any submitted expenses are duplicates

We found that there are 29 incidents were two or more employees submitted the same expenses
in the air fare, hotel, mileage, car rental, taxi, and per diem categories. This could be an indicator
of fraud because they could be coping each others trips but it could mainly be that the chances
of going to the same place and costing the same amount of high.

Use a pivot table and in the rows column put airfare, then hotel, mileage, car rental, taxi,
per diem, and then approvalno.
Approvalno has to be at the bottom of the list.
Then look down the list for any approval numbers that have two in a row or more and
those will be the duplicates.

Excel table finding:

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Approva lnoAirFa re H ote l Mile a ge Ca rR e nta l T a xi Pe rD ie m T ota l Expe nse

124090

417

56.7

150

623.7

124126

550

56.7

250

856.7

124183

149

56.7

50

255.7

124191

266

164.43

100

530.43

124241

504

56.7

200

760.7

124253

162

56.7

100

318.7

124293

146

56.7

50

252.7

124320

266

164.43

100

530.43

124334

504

56.7

200

760.7

124364

149

56.7

50

255.7

124366

106

56.7

50

212.7

124402

162

56.7

100

318.7

124441

550

56.7

250

856.7

124530

146

56.7

50

252.7

124549

106

56.7

50

212.7

124620

417

56.7

150

623.7

124719

765

62.3

280

1107.3

124726

474

62.3

168

704.3

124740

416

62.3

224

702.3

124870

480

249.2

280

1009.2

Copie s

e mploye e s

Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates
Duplicates

Robert Johnson
Jennifer Hill
Susan Lee
Robert Johnson
Mary Moore
Mary Moore
Maria Garcia
Tom Anderson
Jennifer Hill
Tom Anderson
Mary Moore
Tom Anderson
Marie Redwood
Marie Redwood
Tom Anderson
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Marie Redwood
Jennifer Hill
William Davis

9 results were omitted from the report

Matching approval numbers:
#124366= #124549
#142293= #124530
#124183= #124364
#124253= #124402
#124923= #125012
#124191= #124320
#124152= #125160= #125184
#124740= #124899
#124090= #124620
#124726= #125081
#124870= #125314
#124241= #124334
#124126 = #124441
#124719= #124934
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Test 12: Testing is they travel on specific Holidays (Christmas, New Years Eve, New
Years Day, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and Labor Day)
There are 57 trips that happened during one of the holidays listed above. This is not show fraud
but management should look to see when people are going on their trips so they can avoid people
going during the holidays.

List all the dates that were traveled. In the first column list the start date.
In the next column use the formula =IF (N2<$E2, N2+1,".") and copy it down till you
have 6 rows for the dates because that is the maximum days traveled. Copy these
formulas down the columns.
In two new columns list out the days and next to it write the name of the holidays.
To find which days traveled are holidays use the formula =IF (ISERROR (VLOOKUP
(date your checking, holidays table, 2, FALSE)),".", VLOOKUP (date your checking,
holidays table, 2, FALSE)) copy the formula down.
If a holiday occurs while they are on their trip the name of the holiday will appear.

Excel table finding:

11/26/2015
11/24/2016
12/31/2015
12/31/2015
12/31/2015
1/1/2016
9/7/2015
9/5/2016
7/4/2015
7/4/2015
7/4/2015
7/4/2016
7/4/2016
12/25/2015
12/25/2015
11/25/2015
12/30/2015
9/6/2015
9/4/2016
9/4/2016

11/27/2015 11/28/2015
11/25/2016 11/26/2016
1/1/2016
1/2/2016
1/1/2016
1/2/2016
1/1/2016
1/2/2016
1/2/2016
1/3/2016
9/8/2015
9/9/2015 .
9/6/2016
9/7/2016
7/5/2015
7/6/2015
7/5/2015
7/6/2015
7/5/2015
7/6/2015
7/5/2016 .
.
7/5/2016
7/6/2016
12/26/2015 12/27/2015
12/26/2015 12/27/2015
11/26/2015 11/27/2015
12/31/2015 .
.
9/7/2015
9/8/2015
9/5/2016
9/6/2016 .
9/5/2016
9/6/2016

11/29/2015 11/30/2015
11/27/2016 11/28/2016 .
1/3/2016 .
.
1/3/2016 .
.
1/3/2016
1/4/2016
1/4/2016
1/5/2016
.
.
9/8/2016
9/9/2016 .
7/7/2015
7/8/2015
7/7/2015
7/8/2015 .
7/7/2015 .
.
.
.
7/7/2016
7/8/2016 .
12/28/2015 .
.
12/28/2015 .
.
11/28/2015 11/29/2015 .
.
.
9/9/2015
9/10/2015
.
.
9/7/2016
9/8/2016 .

12/1/2015

1/5/2016
1/6/2016

7/9/2015

9/11/2015

Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving.
New years eve
New years day
New years eve
New years day
New years eve
New years day
New years day
.
Labor day
.
Labor day
.
Independence. day
Independence. day
Independence. day
Independence. day
Independence. day
Chirstmas
.
Chirstmas
.
.
Thanksgiving
.
New years eve
.
Labor day
.
Labor day
.
Labor day

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37 results were omitted from the report

Test 13: Testing is there are any stale approvals
There are two stale approvals the approval numbers are 124041 and 125339. This indicates that
people are using approvals that were approved years before the person went on the trip.
Management should look into this because the chances that a manager would know of an
employees trip that is 5 years from the date or the expenses it will cost is unlikely.

Go to approvals tab. On the top right click the heading that says dates and go to sort.
From sort click A to Z and the dates should go from the earliest date to the latest date.
From the date find the ones that are before 2015.

Excel table finding:

Approva lno
D a te
ma na ge rnospno T ra ve lT o Ma xAmount
e mploye e
124041 12/31/2006
13
1006 Tallahassee
800 Susan Taylor
125339 1/4/2009
11
1002 Mobile
1450 William Davis

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