Re:Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a con...
by ghaff on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:20AM
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Yeah, it really depends. I've done it all different ways.
- Bill the client for actual expenses
- Paid out of pocket for travel that was baked into the day rate
- Had major travel (air/hotel) paid for directly by a client's travel agent. (Which I actually preferred to avoid when reasonably possible because now you're dealing with your client's travel policies.)
I'm not an accountant but I tend to agree you shouldn't be billing a broken-out travel line item that's not actual expenses or expenses plus explicit overhead [or a standard per diem].
- Bill the client for actual expenses
- Paid out of pocket for travel that was baked into the day rate
- Had major travel (air/hotel) paid for directly by a client's travel agent. (Which I actually preferred to avoid when reasonably possible because now you're dealing with your client's travel policies.)
I'm not an accountant but I tend to agree you shouldn't be billing a broken-out travel line item that's not actual expenses or expenses plus explicit overhead [or a standard per diem].