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Accounts committee reviews travel and training policy; auditor stresses strict documentation
Summary
At a Brockton City Accounts Committee meeting, the city auditor reviewed an updated travel and expense policy, emphasizing documentation requirements, IRS mileage rates, meal caps and the auditor’s authority to reject reimbursements that lack proof of business purpose.
At a meeting of the Brockton City Accounts Committee, the city auditor reviewed the city’s travel and expense policy and told committee members expense reimbursements must be supported by itemized documentation.
The auditor said the policy is available on the city auditor’s webpage and that controls are intended to prevent improper or fraudulent reimbursements. “They're never reimbursements for an employee's private benefit, and that's where auditing comes in to safeguard that,” the auditor said.
The auditor told the committee the city requires dated, itemized receipts and proof of attendance for conferences; mileage claims must be recorded on department forms with trip dates and destinations; receipts must match the fiscal year in…
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