US Federal Government Compliance - Travel & Expenses

[DavidR]

Apologies if this has been asked, I couldn't locate anything that was a guideline/data to look into, just specific situations

I am new to the admin role during a transition period. I was told on my brief training that anything booked for airfare that isn't Economy (Business/First) is considered out of compliance and needs to be broken out (base fare + difference of base fare for upgrade costs). When I search "government compliance / travel / concur / etc" I get, once again, a myriad of answers and pages on the almighty search engine as well as here

Could anyone point me in the right direction of a starting point someone would need to go to adhere to Federal government compliance when auditing and setting rules in place for my company's Travel & Expense reports? Literally any starting point would be helpful. I'm worried there are many more examples that were not covered in my onboarding before my predecessor left due to so many "one-off" type of rules

Thanks in advance

[KevinD]

@DavidR I'm curious as I looked at your company...are you working in some sort of Government capacity? It doesn't appear your company is a government agency, but you could be doing work on behalf of a government agency. I'm asking because if you are not part of the Public Sector/Government, why are you looking for government compliance? 

In my experience we have public companies and government agency both using SAP Concur, but Government agencies are much more strict in their policies. 

Anyway, you might not be finding too much as government compliance may yield results for what government agencies must follow. I know there are IRS guidelines for travel and expense, but those are guidelines for companies to use if they cannot come up with their own or need a good starting point.

I'll await your reply.

[DavidR]

There's a potential to bid work in the new year for gov contract related jobs