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Subject:Re: Billing for Contract jobs From:Dianne Blake <write-it -at- HOME -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:28:31 -0700
Kalpana Thakar wrote:
> <snip> do you simply tell your employer that you put 150hrs
> into the assigment or do you mention the various activity heads and
> the hours spent in each activity, so that the employer gets to know
> exactly the amount of time you spent on each activity?
Dear Kalpana,
This should be decided up front. If you don't know, it is important to
ask, because some companies need to track different activities (some are
billable and some are overhead). They may have to move some hours to
different categories to ensure the right billable/overhead adjustments
are made.
Some clients don't break it out and some do. You just need to discuss
how they want it invoiced so that they can track billing according to
their accounting department needs.
