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Re:Logging consulting hours - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly by cperciva on Friday February 10, 2012 @09:55PM (#3578434)
My invoices are somewhat less detailed than the "BAD" category. And you know what? It really doesn't matter -- my clients trust me. If they didn't, they wouldn't have hired me in the first place.

Know what your clients expect.

Re:Logging consulting hours - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly by chime on Saturday February 11, 2012 @12:19AM (#3578643)
Mine are mostly in the GOOD category but it's really for me, not the client. Like your clients, my clients trust me. But the benefit of listing the details is I can later go and analyze how much time I spent/wasted on which feature 6 months ago and give them a better idea on whether it will be better to keep trying to fix it or rewrite from scratch.

Having detailed info. also helps with knowing who requested/commissioned which task and when, without having to dig into emails, PM software etc.