The  Tail  Wagging  the  Dog

Billing back project expenses to clients often feels a bit like this.

Missed expenses are a direct hit to profitability so companies go to great lengths to track every dollar spent, often retrofitting processes that take place earlier in the workflow to serve the master. Sorry.
Dog humor.

A common practice is to require a separate expense report for each project but that has its’ challenges.

• More work for the spender
• Still no guarantee that 100% of the billable expenses are captured
• Splitting expenses across multiple projects is a manual process

This adds a considerable amount of work for the spender both in time and number of expense reports needed. Plus, it still requires manual steps on the back end to sort through reports and receipts.

It could be a wash or worse, you could be upside down if it actually costs more to track the expense than the actual item’s value.

Yikes.

You can’t spend it twice. Or maybe you can.

In any case, you certainly don’t have to.

Pivot Payables and Concur have a better way to bird dog (sorry, last one) client billable expenses.

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