Tuesday, August 27, 2013
UCLA in their Expense Reporting
The University of California changes its way in how they maintaining the funds that they have to lessen the expenses that they have preferably in business travels that they have and they must need to have the accurate expense management software in monitoring all the expenses that they have all the time to maintain the state of the school money that they have.
Thirteen years ago, school officials outlawed the reimbursement of first class or business class flights, only allowing those with a medical need to charge such flights to their expense reports. Unfortunately, this led to many of their traveling staff suddenly developing a medical need to fly first class.
According to figures cited by the Center for Investigative Reporting, six of the 17 academic deans at UCLA's Westwood campus have consistently been submitting doctors' notes that allow them to charge non-economy class flights to the schools expenses, costing the university over $230,000 in first class fees.
"No one in their right mind can defend that kind of exorbitant funding," said state Senator Leland Yee, speaking to a local ABC affiliate. Critiquing the publicly funded schools' use of business expense tracking, he insinuated that the only possible explanation could be irresponsibility.
"I think that what happens often times is that UC, because they think that they are above it all, become a little bit arrogant, removed from what's going on in the real world, living in their ivory tower, they lose touch," he said.
The Center found that one of the deans citing a medical need to fly in first class, Judy Olian of the School of Management, had described herself in a Los Angeles Times profile as a "cardio junkie" less than two years ago. According to the report, she spends more on airfare and travel than any of her other peers at the school.
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