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title: "Expense report review: AI Use Case"
description: "Check each expense claim against the policy and its receipts, prepare the approval with anything unusual flagged, and leave the decision with the approver and finance."
url: https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/expense-report-review/
site: Lid Vizion
index: https://lidvizion.ai/llms.txt
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[Use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/) · Finance

# Expense report review

Check each expense claim against the policy and its receipts, prepare the approval with anything unusual flagged, and leave the decision with the approver and finance.

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Where it starts

## The trigger.

An employee submits an expense report.

How it runs today

- Approvers sign off without reading every receipt.
- Finance finds missing receipts and policy breaches after payment.
- Similar claims are treated differently depending on who approves them.

The workflow

## Four bounded steps.

Each step has an owner and a stop rule.

1. 01 / Read
   Read each line and its receipt: date, merchant, amount, category and attendees.
2. 02 / Check
   Compare against the written expense policy, limits and project codes.
3. 03 / Flag
   Mark missing receipts, over-limit items, duplicates and unusual merchants with the reason.
4. 04 / Approve
   The approver and finance review flags and approve, return or adjust the claim.

Where people stay in control

## Approval points.

- An approver and finance decide every claim; nothing is paid automatically.
- Flags are explained so employees can correct claims, not treated as accusations.

How we would measure it

## Against a baseline.

Measured before and after, on the same work.

### Time from submission to reimbursement.

### Policy issues caught before rather than after payment.

### Claims returned for correction.

Related

## Go deeper.

- [Automate the repeatable](https://lidvizion.ai/services/automation/): Give recurring work an owner, a trigger, and a stop rule.
- [Client vs. server: where code runs](https://lidvizion.ai/resources/basics/backend-client-vs-server/): What belongs in the browser or app, and what must stay on a server you control.
- [Review expense reports against your policy](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/review-expense-reports-against-your-policy/): A four-step playbook to turn your expense policy into clear checks, prepare each claim with its receipts and flags, and keep approvers and finance in charge of every decision.
- [How to automate expense report review](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/how-to-automate-expense-report-review/): How can a finance team use AI to review expense reports faster without loosening control?

More use cases

## Other places to start.

[All use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/)

- [Supplier invoice coding and approval](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/invoice-coding-and-approval/): Finance Read incoming supplier invoices, match them to purchase orders and past coding, and route each one to the right approver with the draft entry ready.
- [Invoice and payment matching](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/finance-reconciliation/): Finance Match invoices, receipts and payments across systems, and hand a person the short list that does not reconcile.
- [Vendor contract and renewal review](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/vendor-contract-review/): Finance Extract key terms and renewal dates from vendor contracts, flag unusual clauses for review, and make sure no renewal passes unnoticed.

An illustrative workflow pattern, not a result from a specific customer.

Bring the messy version

## One workflow. A better way to run it.

Show us the tools, the handoffs, and the part that keeps slowing your team down.

[Let’s map your workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/) · [Read our approach](https://lidvizion.ai/approach/)