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Because the claim is approved in one place and paid in another, with a manual step between. Miss the payroll cut-off and it waits a month, which people notice.
Paying back what an employee spent on the company's behalf, either through the pay run or as a separate payment.
Approved claims flow to the pay run automatically if they clear the cut-off, or to a separate payment if not. The approval travels with the amount.
A claim approved two days after cut-off is flagged rather than silently deferred, so it can be paid separately if it is large enough to matter.
It does not advance money before a claim is approved, and it does not handle per-diem calculation automatically.
Books posts the cost to the right account and project. Payroll pays it. The claim, the approval and the payment are one chain.
That depends on your jurisdiction and the expense type; treatment is configured per category.
Yes, as a direct payment recorded against the claim.
Yes, where the claim was attached to a project.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.