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Added guidance on gift cards for meals, fees for on-campus event sites, living wage/cost of living fees, and reception spending.

In Daily Maximum Method, added guidance on living wage/cost of living fees

In General Policy section, clarified language on booking rooms with flexible cancellation policies.

Removed lodging maximums before April 12, 2023; organized maximums table by rate and location

In "Travel Period" clarified language about time zone exception to say "or when traveling through eight or more time zones"

Clarification were made on how to manage flight cancelations and exchanges and conference hotels. Key Travel was added.

Clarified when to use Ground Transportation vs. fly; clarified how to allocate an expense for airfare classes above economy.

Minor update to General Policy/Transportation Options section.

Added link to Local Hotel Program page; created separate section for hotels that exceed policy, with reimbursement guidance.

Financial Management Services (FMS) and University IT (UIT) have partnered to create a new self-service inquiry tool in Oracle Financials that allows users to look up an organization’s suspense account PTAs. If they are a budget officer, they can also create and send a request to change the suspense... On July 1, Stanford employees will have access to a new self-service inquiry tool that allows all Oracle Financials users to look up their organization’s suspense account PTAs and allows budget officers to request updates to them.