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Subject:Re-> WHO PAYS? From:Auli Ingman <Auli -dot- Ingman -at- X400UX -dot- SASKTEL -dot- SK -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 16 May 1995 10:23:23 -0600
Re:> WHO PAYS?
Jonathan Leer asks "who in your organization budgets for and pays for technical
writing services?"
My department has its own budget and pays for any in-house documentation. We
report the actual costs back to the requesting department for a few reasons: to
keep them aware that documentation is a cost of their project and also to
prepare them for the possibility of future chargebacks. It also keeps us focused
on our priorities.
Besides our in-house customers, we also have two subsidiary (out-house?)
companies to whom we actually charge back documentation costs.
