Question

Your company has a travel policy that reimburses employees for the ordinary and necessary costs of business travel. Employees often mix a business trip with pleasure by either extending the time at the destination or traveling from the business destination to a nearby resort or other personal destination. When this happens an allocation must be made between the business and personal portions of the trip. However, the travel policy is unclear on the allocation method to follow Consider this example. An employee obtained a business-class ticket for $9,533 and traveled the following onerary From Chicago Paris Rio de Janeiro One-Way Regular Fare $ 3.500 4.320 3.380 Miles 4,100 5,740 5.210 Rio de Janeiro Chicago Purpose Business Personal Rotum On the date of the flights between Chicago and Paris (and return), a restricted round-trip fore of $4 850 was available. Required: a. Compute the business portion of the airfare and state the basis for the indicated allocation that is appropriate according to each of the following independent scenarios 1. Based on the maximum reimbursement for the employee Business portion of the afore 2. Based on the minimum cost to the company Business portion of the airfare

Answer 1

1. Business portion of the airfare = 3590 * 2= 7180

( since it less than 9533 he can request up to 7180)

2. Minimum , business portion of the airfare = 4850