What "fraud" do you commit on expense reports to avoid questions?
May 12, 2015 | 6:37 am
#121
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1. Automatically fill in an exchange rate that the employee cannot obtain on the open market. Force employee to manually enter exchange rates for every transaction to avoid losing money.
2. Deny hotel nights or car rental expenses due to "lost" receipt. Don't tell employee and assume they won't check reimbursement checks. Many do not.
3. Modify expense rules to deny claims to the point that line managers complain.
These are the frauds I have seen.
2. Deny hotel nights or car rental expenses due to "lost" receipt. Don't tell employee and assume they won't check reimbursement checks. Many do not.
3. Modify expense rules to deny claims to the point that line managers complain.
These are the frauds I have seen.
Consequently, I simply raise my hourly rates to accommodate their nonsense. Life's too short to argue about minutiae.
May 12, 2015 | 4:58 pm
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May 13, 2015 | 5:27 am
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My biggest fraud is that I claim bus fare and instead take a taxi, making up the difference from my pocket. (For the most part, we aren't permitted to take taxis.) Easy fraud, since bus fares don't usually require receipts.
May 13, 2015 | 5:48 am
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1. Automatically fill in an exchange rate that the employee cannot obtain on the open market. Force employee to manually enter exchange rates for every transaction to avoid losing money.
2. Deny hotel nights or car rental expenses due to "lost" receipt. Don't tell employee and assume they won't check reimbursement checks. Many do not.
3. Modify expense rules to deny claims to the point that line managers complain.
These are the frauds I have seen.
2. Deny hotel nights or car rental expenses due to "lost" receipt. Don't tell employee and assume they won't check reimbursement checks. Many do not.
3. Modify expense rules to deny claims to the point that line managers complain.
These are the frauds I have seen.
May 13, 2015 | 6:56 am
#127
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That's fine, assuming you can sufficiently define the scope of services. But sometimes the scope evolves during the project, which means more (or fewer) trips are required.
I love fixed fees, but sometimes they just don't work very well.
I love fixed fees, but sometimes they just don't work very well.
May 13, 2015 | 7:22 pm
#128
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Ended up with two additional in person visits and 8 additional days which was billed and settled.
I am fortunate that the scope of the type of work the I do now does not creep up or down too often when the contract is finalized. I can see where my fix fee methodology will not work in fields where scope of work will vary.
May 14, 2015 | 5:34 am
#129
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Problem is when restaurants or taxi drivers just give you a blank receipt rather than write one out. So I have to write it out and I always do for the correct amount. But then there's an unpleasant feeling that no matter how honest I have been my receipts will look suspicious.
May 14, 2015 | 7:50 pm
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May 14, 2015 | 8:47 pm
#132
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Problem is when restaurants or taxi drivers just give you a blank receipt rather than write one out. So I have to write it out and I always do for the correct amount. But then there's an unpleasant feeling that no matter how honest I have been my receipts will look suspicious.
May 14, 2015 | 10:50 pm
#133
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Depends on the country, depends on the type of restaurant, but yes, it does happen. Usually mom & pop places where the bill is really just a piece of blank paper with scribbles, and when you need an official receipt, it's probably just a blank one torn from a generic receipt booklet you can buy from a stationery shop. At most they might be able to stamp the shop name/registration on it.
May 16, 2015 | 11:13 pm
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How about a post... what do business owners do that is dodgy but not illegal.
Every time we look up something to do with our business we high five each other and say..."yes. it's in New York" or Milan or wherever!
Every time we look up something to do with our business we high five each other and say..."yes. it's in New York" or Milan or wherever!
May 17, 2015 | 9:29 pm
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I usually go to my credit card statement and calculate the rate for my largest transaction of the trip (usually the hotel bill) and just use that rate for all transactions.